38 Burst results for "One Of The Reasons"
The Cryptoshow - blockchain, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and decentralization simply explained
A highlight from #466 Crypto October: Uptober or Octobear??
"Welcome to the Crypto Show. Your podcast for everything around crypto, blockchain, bitcoin and more. Here is your host, international blockchain expert, serial entrepreneur and investor, Dr. Julian Hasp. September is over. Are we going to see an October or is it going to be an October where we're going to have some bearish movement? Hey and welcome to today's video. My name is Julian. On my channel, it's all about making you crypto fit. I discuss the beautiful world of decentralization, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, much, much more. I try to put different views on all these topics. Obviously, on the one hand, as the CEO of Cake Group. Obviously, as an entrepreneur, business owner, very different views as a personal investor. Sometimes you want to take a risk off the table, on the table and then obviously from a regulator side as well. I work with a lot of governments and regulators and so different spins to all these various topics. Now, September is over. A lot of people expected September to be bearish and I want to be very fair, that included me. I was way more bearish on September. At the end, it turned out that the candle was slightly green, which was actually the exception. Most of September's are red historically in crypto. Now, why was it relatively bullish? Difficult to kind of say. I think probably two reasons. First, despite the Bitcoin spot ETF getting delayed, there is very strong consensus right now that we may see the Bitcoin spot ETF in January. So, a lot of people sitting there saying, look, this was kind of the plan in the first place. Anyways, everyone had expected it to happen next year. Who cares if it comes right now or in Q1. And I'm not going to sell because of that. So, I think that was the first reason. The second reason is what's happening today. Ethereum futures are starting. Ethereum futures ETF are starting today. So, that should drive some positive sentiment. Yes, I know that historically it has always led to a sell -off. But I don't really see this in this case because we didn't really see much of a run -up. Again, I don't think we're going to see a 50 % pump here and then a 50 % dump or in this case like a 33 % dump to kind of equalize it. But I think we're just going to see some positive sentiment and I think that's the key thing. We have to be clear with if we think that something is bullish or bearish in this kind of market. And then obviously, Saylor bought $150 million worth of Bitcoin in September. We don't know exactly the time span, but kind of in September. And so, yeah, I think that was a very strong kind of support. Now, this is very contrary to the stock market. The stock market got slaughtered in September. It was actually the worst month of the entire year. This is something that I've been talking about on the channel for so long that you have to be careful with stocks, especially after this really strong first half in the year. So this is just something that to kind of keep in mind and this is just something to really watch out for. So no surprises there. To me, the surprise was more that we actually had a very constructive September in crypto, less so that the rest of the market was more on the bearish side. I think surprising also to see how strong oil stocks are doing. I mean, oil is, well, pumping. So yeah, on the one hand, no surprise. And then on the other hand, going up. So that's kind of September. And I mean, that generally weak Q3, which in general, like this has nothing to do with crypto, this is the general markets, generally weak third quarter is over.
Stuff You Should Know
Fresh update on "one reasons" discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"All right, so we left quite a cliffhanger. Rhodium peaked at about close to $30,000 not too long ago in just March and April of 2021. Now it's down to about $4,000. And I saw like $39,000 today, $4,200 yesterday in that area, and the forecast is for it to be about the same, which is still one of the most valuable metals in the world. More than gold, for sure. Yeah, I mean, it's like still twice as much as gold, so it's still very, very valuable. But like anything, it's all about supply and demand. And while the supply is still low because it's still rare, it's not like they found some huge supply of it somewhere, the demand has gone way down for a lot of reasons that are pretty boring. If you're someone who talks about things like financial instruments, then you might really enjoy hearing about like the 12 reasons that I found that it's not a demand. But one of the big reasons that everyone can understand is that Rhodium is one of the biggest uses is that it's used in catalytic converters, which is one reason why catalytic converters are stolen because they contain palladium, platinum, and rhodium, and people can cut them off very easily and sell them for a lot of money. But catalytic converters are on the decline because of the rise of electric vehicles, so thus rhodium, the demand is down. Isn't that interesting? Like just the price of rhodium indicates that the world turned a corner and is like, yep, electric vehicles are here to stay and we don't really need catalytic converters like we used to. Yeah, it'll go back up though because the other 11 reasons are much more volatile and not as locked in. Okay, but still, it's just not in demand. I think something like 80% of the use or the demand for rhodium was with the automotive industry, largely for catalytic converters. The reason why they use it for catalytic converters is because it is just aces at converting nitrogen and nitrous oxide emissions, which there's still some that comes out of your tailpipe, but nothing like it would without a catalytic converter. Like we would not be breathing basically right now with all the cars on the road if there weren't catalytic converters featuring rhodium. And the solution to that is not more rhodium, it's fewer catalytic converters, turns out. Yeah, I wrote the catalytic converter article years ago at HowStuffWorks. How was it? It was a slog, my friend. I'll bet. Yeah, as someone, you know, I think for both of us, we're not super car guys, or at least how cars work. So it was tough. Well, can you take 10 minutes and explain how they work real quick? I have no memory of it. But what I do remember is you said 80% as far as their use in catalytic converters. Also 80%, that's how much rhodium South Africa is putting out. About 80% of the world supply is coming from South Africa. Russia is number two on that list. Zimbabwe is number three. And there's also a, and again, these aren't rhodium mines, I think they're generally platinum mines for the most part. But there's a platinum mine in Montana that is producing some rhodium as well. Pretty neat. Not bad. One of the cool things about rhodium is that it's super shiny. It's got a beautiful silvery white sheen to it. So it makes it very alluring. Like Momo. Yeah, exactly.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from BREAKING First U.S. Ethereum ETF APPROVED! (Altcoin Pump Coming?)
"The future is so bright for crypto, folks. I just had to wear the shades. Thank you for joining today. Good morning. It's time to discover crypto. It's Friday, September 29. I'm getting ready to go to Vegas for the CNFTCON, now called NFT -LV. Jeremiah's going to be there. No, no. Sawtooth is going to be there. Jeremiah, just happy he bought some Chainlink. Guys, we got a great show today. We're talking about the ETH futures. We're breaking that down. Also, we're talking about Bitcoin. Tim has something special to show you on the charts. Circle listing. And my fiancé might pop up on camera, and she's going to tell a story how I was the world's worst fiancé ever this morning. So she might come on camera and tell the tale. You know, I am a family -oriented man. And you know what? I'm bringing my one and only woman here on camera. Alright, guys, make sure you are sub to the channel here. Discover crypto. Check out all the other channels. Nothing but love for Frankie. Frankie had a big announcement yesterday. We still love Frankie. There's no hard feelings. And we're applauding and celebrating Frankie here at Discover Crypto. Still going to be collabing with him. Still going to be working with him. He's still working in the building. Yeah, we're going to see him literally every day. Well, I didn't want to tell that much. But yeah, he's still here, folks. Yeah. He's literally still here. Tony, Tony, Tony. I think he's like, he's still in the candle mafia house, though. He's still in the basement. Well, he shoots certain videos from home and certain videos from here. Like literally, his schedule will not change whatsoever. But the difference, and we're very excited for him, is he will completely own everything he does. Everyone here is excited for him. Shout out to Frankie Candles. I still predict, Deezy. There's a lot of, I want to make sure I preface this right, because even I do TA. There's a lot of good technical analysts out there. I still predict Frankie Candles will be the number one crypto TA channel in 2025. I would, I will say I would agree with that with maybe one person still going to be beating him, still going to be putting out a lot of content. And we all love him. Frankie loves him. I've talked to him, you know, MM Crypto. And there's something about that guy. When the bull market hits, I mean, guys, you might see some strong thumbnails now. Wait till the bull market. If you haven't been through a bull market with MM Crypto thumbnails, you haven't really experienced a bull market, folks. And I also love how he has 17 exclamation points on MM Crypto's titles. He has a very interesting title selection there. Well, folks, let's get right into the show. All right, first, should we lead with the world's worst fiance? Let's do it after Crypto Market Cap. Yeah. All right, we're gonna go ahead, show the prices, and I'll tell you why I was the world's worst fiance. Kat, are you okay? Just briefly telling the short section of that story in about two minutes. All right, first, let's get into the crypto market cap here. I just refreshed and we are moving up, folks. We are still above 1 .1 trillion. We are up 0 .8%. 24 -hour volume was right around 50 yesterday. I think it was like 54. Today, it's 48. So, largely the same. Bitcoin dominance has fallen, however. We went from 47 .1. We were hanging out there forever, jumped up to 47 .4, and now we're down to 47 .0. And strangely, gas is only 14 Gwei. I don't get how gas is so low right now. I was swapping some alts the other day. We have Bitcoin down 0 .1 % and Ethereum up 1 .8%. And that is the large reason why you're seeing the dominance change here. Just the two biggest cryptos moving in opposite direction, albeit slightly. We have BNB 0 .5 % to the upside. But I think who's really celebrating today is the XRP community. XRP is up 5 % today. Is it anticipation for XRP's party in New York City tonight, you think? What are your thoughts? Was it a TA level? It was just bound to happen? Or are people really excited about partying in the Big Apple? Well, not me. I'm not that big of a party person. And shout out to New York. But I don't really like going to New York. You don't like going to New York? If you had one reason why you avoid New York, what is that one reason? There's many a reason. I just don't like city life like that. I like being out, not the middle of nowhere, but like the middle of somewhere rather than the middle of everywhere. I like being in the middle of nowhere near somewhere. All right, we have Cardano up 2 .8%. Another big pump for the top 10 here. We have Solana. Solana is up 4 .5%. It is now above $20. Looking like it might turn $20 into support. It likes hanging around that psychological level. Tron is also up 3 .5%. We do have something moving down. And that is TonCoin. TonCoin, the hottest coin last month, two months ago. Now it's a little bit as maybe Chainlink's taken some of its juice. And you can see Chainlink flat for the day. But if you look at the weekly there, you can see 16%. And that is higher than every single coin above it. In fact, no coin has even gotten to the double digits, except for Bitcoin Cash. And Bitcoin Cash, you know, kind of an asterisk next to that coin as far as price movement. Shiba is also moving to the upside. But now it is time to look at the biggest gainers. The biggest gainers in the world is going to be me at the blackjack table. It's going to be a cat at the slots. All right, the world's biggest gainers. What do we have? We have Sweet.
The Crypto Overnighter
Fresh update on "one reasons" discussed on The Crypto Overnighter
"Lately we've been talking about the impending launch of Ethereum futures exchange traded funds. Now you'd think the launch of nine new Ethereum ETFs would be a momentous occasion, right? Well, not so fast. The first day of trading for these nine products saw a total volume of less than $2 million. That's right, less than $2 million across all nine ETFs. Now to give you some perspective, the ProShares Bitcoin strategy ETF, which launched last year, saw more than $1 billion in trading volume on its first day. So what's going on? Investment firms, ProShares, VanEck, Bitwise, Valkyrie, Kelly, and VolShares all threw their hats into the ring. ProShares launched three funds, including the Ether Strategy Fund. VanEck rolled out its Ethereum strategy ETF and Bitwise debuted its Ethereum strategy ETF, among others. Valkyrie's Bitcoin and Ether strategy ETF took the lead with around $787,000 worth of shares traded. Now, not all of these ETFs are pure Ether plays. Some of them, like Valkyrie's, track a combination of Bitcoin and Ether futures. But even so, the numbers are far from impressive. Why the lackluster performance? One reason could be that the SEC has yet to approve a spot crypto ETF. People are waiting for spot ETFs because they let investors gain exposure to the actual cryptocurrency at its current price, rather than betting on its future price. And let's face it, the SEC isn't exactly crypto's best friend. They've been dragging their feet on approving these spot ETFs, keeping Wall Street and retail investors in limbo. Another question to consider is the current state of the crypto market. Ethereum's price at the time of the ETF's launch was around $1,690, a modest 24-hour rise of just 0.5%. It's clear that the market is still wary about these Ethereum futures ETFs. Whether it's distrust in the SEC or just a more cautious approach to crypto investing, the lukewarm reception speaks volumes. And until the SEC gets its act together and approves a spot crypto ETF, it seems like these future ETFs will continue to underperform. From ETFs to the job market, Chainalysis is making cuts. And it's not just a one-off event. This is a sign of the times, folks. As always, if you want more crypto news, make sure you're subscribed.
The Dan Bongino Show
Montage: Joe Biden Gets Mad Every Time He's Asked About His Son
"So jim queue up for me cut five this is what happens when you ask joe biden about his son hunter he gets really mad i'll explain why uh... you know i said no indication of any conflict from the credit or anywhere else period let's focus on the problem focus on this man what what he's doing that no president has ever done company wanted access to you well well that's not true you're saying things you do not know what you're talking about who said that there is no controversy about my son that's all a lie demand why is he mad always bad because he loves his son he does not why he's mad no one who loves their son sends him overseas with a drug problem the grift chinese communist party period end the sentence end the book joe oh biden is mad for one reason because biden is terrified that if the media keeps looking into his son it's going to pressure the doj to
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "one reasons" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"TV returned for the first time five in months last night. ABC's Brian Clark reports. Late night shows were the first to shut down when Hollywood writers went on strike. Five months off and we are back. Tonight shows Jimmy Fallon kicking things off. Everyone is excited today. My dad called me up and said, Finally, I can watch Kimmel again. We've been gone so long. Is now a grandfather. Jimmy Kimmel and the late show Stephen Colbert both reminisced on former President Trump's legal woes. Check my math on this. I believe we have been off the air for 54 indictments. When they booked Trump in Georgia and he self reported his weight at pounds. 215 I almost crossed the picket line for that. Brian Clark, ABC News from ABC News tech trends. October has only just begun, but holiday tech shopping season is already well underway. It's not Amazon Prime Day exactly, but the e commerce giant is holding two big deal days, October 10th and 11th for Prime members, they're and not alone. Amazon, Best Buy, Target and Walmart have all announced sales right on top of each other for that first couple weeks in October. Kristin McGrath of Retail Me Not says one reason the shopping season is starting earlier. These early sales offer multiple rounds of shopping, more time to hunt for deals. Bachman is the US economic forecast lead for Deloitte. He says retail sales are expected to slow to about half of what they were last year, but that may not translate to steeper discounts. Since inflation has come down, we're looking at more like a world that we had before the pandemic is consistent with a moderately growing economy. With tech trends, I'm Mike Debosky ABC News. There's a new way to stay connected and stay informed. Newsradio crystal clear on your HD radio. to Go 101 .5 FM HD2. Check back often and never miss a thing. Your information station. Jumping in puddles was fun when I was a kid. Big splash. But now that I've grown up,
The Financial Guys
A highlight from Rising Auto Theft Rates: Urban Consequences and Solutions
"Well, you see how easy this is now. Now you look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks, this is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporations, but guess who's getting the guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton Foundation gets paid the rebuild Welcome right. to the podcast. We are in the same studio today, which is kind of nice. So thanks again for downloading. If you're just listening, if you're watching or watching the clips, uh, thanks for watching as well. And just for a quick mention, so I don't forget, if you haven't downloaded our app yet, I'm noticing we're getting a lot of downloads and the cool thing is when the morning Mike's program is going Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I'm the, seeing the view count go up and up and up, which is awesome. So I know we're only, you know, we're still in the dozens. I'd like to get into the hundreds and eventually thousands, um, but it's a cool program. If you haven't listened to it, it's a quick 15 minutes to quick by morning, run down three days a week of the top five topics, three minutes each. Do a great job. They do an awesome job when we're, when we fill in the stuff. We screw the whole thing up. Yes. Yeah. We, we blow the whole, the whole, uh, the schedule, but, um, but they do awesome and they're funny. I love it. It's a quick, you know, down and dirty 15 minutes, top five items of the day. And now you get your day started off on the, uh, they, you know, I think on the right foot, they were saying this week, like, Oh, it's so negative all the time, but I think they're hilarious. They take the negative stuff that's going on, but of course the negative stuff isn't the news. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we're seeing. I mean, carjackings again, Rochester had another, you know, record night. I mean, it's incredible how that was going on. And so it's amazing is, is like the Democrats just sit around and watch this happen in every city and every city. It's insane. Yeah. I sent you an article earlier this morning about Philadelphia. Let's see. I can find it. It's, uh, not that it's anything out of, you know, anything that we don't know about, but let's see here. Philadelphia swarmed by alleged juvenile. Come on, come on. Juvenile looters targeting the Apple store, Lulu lemon and footlocker. Yeah. So, cause they're starving. They're starving. They just, just need a little piece of ham and some Turkey. They need clothes and food. That's, that's only fair. I mean, they, you know, and once again, I know we've all heard this joke, but footlocker is not missing one pair of working boots. No, no, all the Nike's, all the Nike. Yeah. Well, some of those Nike's, I mean, Oh my God. Crazy. You know, talking about like, you know, thousands of dollars for a pair of, thousands, thousands of dollars. I was talking to my daughter and she said to one, one of her friends has a, as a pair of shoes were $1 ,200. I'll never forget the most expensive pair of shoes I ever bought. We were just starting a business. This was like 30 years ago now. Right. Crazy to think. And I remember somebody told me that maybe my dad was like, you got to have a decent pair of shoes. Right. And so I went up and I bought a pair of Justin and Murphy's. They're like 120 bucks at the time. Yeah. The most money I have ever spent on a pair of shoes. Now boots, I've spent more money on since because boots are more expensive, you know, hunting boots. Well, there's a purpose to them. I still don't spend more money on shoes. Like I'm wearing like Skechers or like $40. Like some of these Nike's $500. You can't tell me you're running faster. It's different when you're going to go out and buy a pair of like waders or something. You're going to use them. First of all, you're going to use them for the next 30 years. Right. And there's a purpose to them, right? Like, okay, they're more expensive, but I can walk through the water with them. Right. But if I bought like, if I had five, 600 hour pairs of shoes, I'd be afraid to leave the house. I wouldn't, I wouldn't get off the carpeting. Well, they're targeting the Apple store here, Glenn, because they'll buy jobs. And that's the only way to get a job is to make sure you've got an Apple iPhone. So it'll be like Chicago. We talked about this the other week with, with, uh, with Mike Speraza, Chicago is now forced to open or, or just talking about opening, you know, a, a government run grocery store in the inner city because they've all that. Well, they're going to, so they're going to, they're going to, the plan is to fight the communism with more kind of communism, right? That's going to work really well. But could you imagine how inefficient, first of all, Walmart's pulled out, Costco's pulled out, all the stores have pulled out because now target, have you heard targets now closing stores across the country? So target is now going through and discussing all the stores across the country, liberal target, liberal target. They put a black lives matter that they ripped down the smash of the window. I thought that'd be some sort of a shield or that we're just going to put up this, uh, this plywood and we're going to spray black lives matter on it. Hashtag hashtag BLM. And we'll be safe as they rip it out and use that same plywood to smash the window with. It's pathetic. There'll be nothing left in these inner cities. The problem is when it starts to spill over into the, into the, Oh yeah. This is, this is where it gets ugly. Well, they want it. That's what they want. That's, that's why people like, uh, the governor of New York, uh, you know, Kathy, the ice queen, Kathy Hochul is, is, you know, they first tried the push for section eight housing in the suburbs because that was only fair. Yeah. Now they couldn't get that through because the people in the suburbs are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now they're busing in illegal immigrants in the middle of the night. And I tell you something, if these Democrats like Mark Poland cars were proud of what they were doing, they would have a welcoming party at noon at noon, high noon. They'd have a press conference welcoming our newest community members off the bus so that the whole community could see these family units that are getting off. You got the husband, the wives, the two kids, you know, the things that we see in our country, right? No, it's not happening. They're bringing them in at two o 'clock in the morning. So nobody sees, they're all, they're all 23 year old males, right? Or 18 to 25 year old males. Some of which are from the Congo. I don't know about the, uh, you know, the, some of the social norms in the Congo, but I'm just thinking that maybe they're a little bit different than the Western world. I don't know. I'm just thinking maybe not. Maybe they're exactly like us. I don't know. But they're exactly like us. Why would they want to come here? Why are they aspiring to come here? I don't know. Anyway, it's a fentanyl fentanyl up again, by the way, there was another report. I think it was on a Fox news. Well, good for the Republicans. I mean, at least part of them, I should say good for the five or six Republicans that are the extreme right wing, according to the media, that's holding this garbage up. No, shut the government down, shut it down, shut it down until there's no more money. Take the money, go into Ukraine and send it to Texas, which they did right to the border, which they didn't do last time. Right. Kept it open. That's what do you need? What do you need? We're out of control. The founding fathers gave the power of the purse to Congress and the, and the Pentagon, the Pentagon goes, yeah, you know what? We're just going to exempt Ukraine funding from the budget. So ha ha. We just went over 33 trillion. If you go online and look at the clock, it's moving fast, right? So we're on our way to 34 or 35. Can you even see the numbers anymore? They just blur blur now. So, so fast. Oh no. And, and good news, by the way, we're refinancing this debt at 5 % now, not at 1 % or zero like we were doing. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense. Yeah. It'd be great. Yeah. The fence talk about keeping rates higher for longer. I don't know. They're not going to be able to do that. They'll be cutting interest rates by next year. Mark by where? And the number one reason I say that is because when you talk to every economist, I say, that's not going to happen. And they are typically wrong. So if you take the, it's like saying betting against the casino, it's like saying, you know what? I don't think MGM is going to make money in the sporting books next year. Ma, they're going to figure out a way to make money. They'll rechange the lines, right? Well, you, all you need to do is look at it and get a bunch of economists in a room and ask them where they think the market's going to be and then do just the opposite and you would be way better. Yeah. Pretty much that's usually the way to go. No doubt about it. So the, the, the, the Pelosi, we were talking earlier about the Pelosi stock trader. Yeah. You can follow online. Now, some of these folks, we did the game show game last week. We talked about the, uh, the net worth. I picked the poor ones too. They were like 23, 21, you know, $20 million. Some of these folks are amazing. I mean, really just, you know, the wizards of smart on some of these are just really, timing is impeccable up here. This is somebody who is selling some software that I'll track it, which you can, you, you've pointed out, you can get it for free online, but, but the, the numbers are really astonishing. This Democrat Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million. That was just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Well, by the way, why, why do they own these big $25, $36 million homes? Well, a big, big part of it is because the taxation of it, right? So a Feinstein who's telling you your ordinary income tax rates are too low. She's shifting that to a capital asset, which is going to create a capital gain in the future or no gain. Or no gain. I mean, they're 10, 10 31. This is why when Donald Trump looked at Hillary Clinton right in the eye and said, you will not get rid of the carry interest deduction and you know it because all of your, I use it, of course, all of her bigger donors donate money to Hillary Clinton. And this is exactly the truth, right? They will never get rid of some of these things. Like they talked about, we're going to get rid of the 10 31 exchanges. Yaha. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. So the big developer strokes a giant check to the, to the Democrats off the table. Let's listen to her success though. Amazing. A Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Only two years earlier, Diane Feinstein has been a member of the political scene for 32 years and her salary is only $130 ,000 per 130 grand a year. Now it's more now. That's a little bit dated, but it's up, it's up to probably 180 now. But, but listen to this. First of all, if it was up to 580, you're not buying $23 million homes, $36 million homes. No, no, we're going to put in multiple homes. We're going to, we're going to put the Paul Pelosi onto our research committee. You make a million dollars a year. First of all, most of, most business owners that make that kind of money, they didn't make it throughout their whole life, right? They didn't start making a million dollars at 20 years old. They started making a million dollars at 50 years old and it took 30 years to get to that point. Right? So my point is, you're not at a million dollars a year at age 50. If you did it the right way, the hard way, and you did it yourself, you're still not affording a $23 million home, right? Multiple ones. Yeah. Multiple, multiple. Right. Those aren't even her primary residence. Those are her vacation homes. She lives in, she lives in California. Listen to this though. And it's, it's all of them. It's all of them now. This is a, this is from Nancy Pelosi, stock trader. Uh, this is a tweet, uh, a Twitter feed. You can follow Pelosi tracker is what it's supposed to track or underline or something like that. You'll find it. Anyway, uh, three weeks ago, sitting politician bet against the U S economy so far. He's been right. Tom Carper bought $45 ,000 of PSQ and inverse ETF on the tech sector on eight 23, August 23rd. Since then he's plus 3 % while the market is negative 4%. Go figure. Wow. Go figure. Man, these guys are so good. Yeah. And they're not by, they're, I mean, these are, that's some pretty technical strategy. You started getting into options strategies and stuff. I mean, yeah. Yeah. These guys have become very, very slick. It's not just about buying a, you see, it used to be, okay, I'm going to buy X, Y, Z. Then I'm going to vote for or against something. You know, I'm going to short the stock and then I'm going to vote against them for both that, that, that. So the stock goes down or I'm going to vote for something, knowing that it will benefit the company. The stock will go up and in a sense front running. No, they're, they're in the options strategies now. They're in the market. Yeah. They're doing butterfly spreads. Yeah. Crazy stuff going. They're very sophisticated. They shouldn't be allowed to two things. When you go into Congress, I, you know, I would love to have a Congress person run on or present around the following platform, right? Number one, term limits, term limits, top of the list. Number two, though, while you're in Congress for the eight years, or wherever we allow you to serve 10 years, 12 years, whatever it is, you could not invest in a stock market at all. All your investments are frozen or your choices, a model, some kind of a model liquidated go to cash, or you could buy the fidelity balance to counter. You could buy the, you could buy the T -rope price, you know, target retire, whatever, you know, or you go to goes into a blind something or other where you have no idea. Right. It just goes into what you picked a one through five tolerance for risk and somebody else invest. Maybe it's just broad indexing. Maybe that's it. Right. Something that doesn't allow this kind of garbage to go on where, you know, they buy, you know, Tesla stock and then approve a huge, you know, oh, we're going to, guess what? We're going to build a, you know, for government funded battery stations all the country. Of course, Elon comes out and goes, we already got those, you idiots. I did that like four years ago, you morons. Amazing what Elon can do and what the, what the government can. Going back to target for just a second, not to digress, but I found WGRZ, thankfully came up with a list of the, uh, the target stores that will be closing, Mike, the full list of locations all in, all in Republican run. You'll be shocked. Yeah. Yeah. Right in the, uh, the thriving, the, uh, you know, thriving, the Minneapolis, uh, location, the retailer said the decision, the close was really difficult. I wonder if that was after half. That was the one they put the BLM on. Yeah. Oh, that was the one they put the sign on that said, please don't burn our store down. We love you. I hashtag BLM lit it on fire. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Uh, let's see. I'm shocked though. I wouldn't, I'm surprised you wouldn't stay. I mean, you know, like just collecting, you love them. You love, you support them. This is what you supported. Remember you, you, you raised money, you gave money. Yeah. And guess what they did with that money. They agitators hired to whip up people in the community to smash and burn down your store. You idiots. So there you go. There you go. Nice, nice work. What else do you think, Mike? Uh, New York city's East Harlem neighborhood. That's going to be one that's goes down. I wonder why. Chicago, San Francisco for sure. San Fran. Yeah. San Fran. Uh, by the way, before I forget San Fran, Democrat San Francisco mayor, announces plan to require drug testing, which is good in an effort to, if you're going to receive homeless benefits. Right. But the funny thing was in this same passage, they're going to Texas to try to recruit police officers. The funny thing is is that the people they sent from San Francisco to try to recruit people. They didn't come back. They defected like North Koreans. Some of them got jobs. They get over the wall. They come out, they get over the wall. It was hilarious. No, they didn't go back. Well, the other five stores, Mike, three in Portland, Oregon and two in Seattle, five, three in Portland. They're pulling out of Portland together. All of these inner cities folks will be food deserts. You're going to hear that term. It'll be business deserts. It'll be nothing. Well, business deserts, nothing left, but there'll be, but target, don't forget target. Does target sell food? Yeah. Well, yeah. They sell food. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Well, I don't go on target. So Walmart I know does Costco for sure. Costco is a food store. I don't think target is as big as Walmart as far as like fresh fruit, but definitely frozen food, all that kind of stuff. You know, aisles of pop and water and chips and right, right, right. And all that kind of stuff. But you can definitely frozen food. You can buy bulk frozen food there. So, so there's going to be food deserts, all over the place, business deserts, whatever you want to call them. You know, it's amazing because you know, the, there's no policing. And the sad thing is that is the problem. It's not, there's no policing. I shouldn't say that. Excuse me. No, you're policing your asses off. I get it. There's no ability. There's no prosecution. There's no bill. You guys are arresting people, putting them in and they go right back on the street. They're getting, they're getting appearance tickets. It's a joke. Your point is no, there is no policing anymore because of the system, the Democrats put together where the police officers aren't going to bother. If you're a police officer and you know that somebody is going to be this, this carjacking or whatever is robbery. And you know that there's a potential, you're going to get an altercation where you're in New York state. There's two police officers that have been brought up on charges recently with almost a hundred percent chance that if you do catch that person, that person will be right back. Yeah. A hundred percent. Why would you bother? Why would you bother? You're not going to put your life in line. No way. You want to go home to see your wife and kids too, and your mother or your husband or whatever. You want to be able to spend your Christmas with your family. Why would you do that? And they know that, right? The Democrats know that. This is, you can't be this stupid. I mean, who allows these people to go right back on the streets and say, this is a good idea without correcting this right away. You can say, okay, bail reform. Our intentions were one thing, but when you look at the fact that in New York state, we are now breaking records in towns like Rochester and Buffalo for the most amount of vehicles being stolen. We can say, okay, look at bail reform, put it in place. It clearly did not work. It's been a total disaster. These towns have turned to shit. We absolutely need to go back in the other direction. They're not doing that. They don't care. They want to, and they're doubling down, tripling down on it, tripling down. We invited this liberal on, you actually were on the show with him and he said, things are actually safer since bail reform. That's what his argument was. His argument was, and by the way, his argument was if we have even less police officers, cities like Buffalo will get safer. Well the thought was less police officers, less arrests. Less arrests means less crime. Dude, you got the whole thing backwards, bro. And not only that, but now we know that, right? Now we know, now you can, I mean, literally auto thefts are up 360 % in Rochester. They're not up 3%. You can say, well, you know, in Buffalo and we're in second place. And they can't play, they can't play in COVID. They're trying to like, well, it was a lockdown. People were at pent up, whatever. Remember that was the, that was the reason for the rioting and the ballooning and burning like, well, people had a lot of pent up. We probably should have locked them down. That was a little bit of the reason for the increase in suicides. You guys, you guys increased suicides because you locked kids in their homes, but it wasn't the reason that they went and decided to steal Nike sneakers from a footlocker. So check this out. Speaking of COVID, this is huge. This is, I don't know if you saw this or not, but this is absolutely ginormously huge. Dr. Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters without a record of entry where he participated in the analysis to influence the agency's COVID -19 investigation according to the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. Did he need to do much with these left -wing CIA agents? Probably not. No, no, no. That's what they're smuggling him in for. Well they smuggled him in because they didn't want anybody to know that he was part of the PSYOP operation, which was hydroxychloric. By the way, the I think it was a Mayo clinic and some other hospitals now have come out as well as the CDC and said hydroxychloroquine, yes, indeed is an effective treatment for COVID. Oh, by the way, ivermectin also an effective treatment. The CDC now approving that. Now mind you, we're going to keep in mind that if there was any other treatments that couldn't get the emergency use authorization for these vaccines that clearly don't work. Amazingly, I'm still seeing people online go signing off my sixth booster on our way for the sixth shot, proud to get our sixth shot. How about how about one the other day, local left -wing nut job got her sixth booster shot, six shot and she still got COVID and then she said, well, I was so good hiding and it got all my shots and then I went to a concert and I got it at this concert. Well, first of all, you don't know that, but second of all, if you have six shots and you six shots and you still got COVID and you actually think that was a good idea, you don't need a vaccination. You need a mental, you need a mental check. I tell you, I know people during the during the COVID, the height of the COVID that were older, some of our clients actually that were prescribed by a doctor a hydroxy quirk when they were taking it once a week as a as a preventative measure. Yeah. And they, to this day have never had COVID. Yeah. And it's, it's, I mean, so it, but the sad thing is again, you know, we couldn't, it's all about the money now. And that's, you know, when people talk about the evils of capitalism, you're seeing some of that. Now, capitalism is the best thing on the planet, right? As far as, you know, lifting the masses out of poverty and creating amazing amounts of wealth. But the problem is this isn't, this isn't capitalism. What's going on. This is cronyism is what's going on. It is, Hey, look at, I will give you these government dollars. You're going to get this patent. You're going to get this. Unholy marriage between business and government. Mark my word. We were talking about Feinstein selling 25, $30 million homes. This Fauci will be on the board of Pfizer. He'll be on the board of Moderna. He's going to get shares of those companies. He will be blessed with with with millions and millions of dollars. His family watch and see, we'll be talking if we're, if you and I are fortunate enough to be around 20, 30 years from now, we'll be talking about the Fauci trust and watch and monitor that trust and see how big that family trust. Well, you see how easy this is now. You look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks. This is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporation, but guess who's getting the, guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton foundation gets paid to rebuild it. Right. And guess who's going to get the contracts to rebuild. Oh, that'll be probably one of the Biden family members or somebody else's politically connected. Right. Remember it was, it was a Joe Biden's brother who got the contract, the multi -billion dollar contract to rebuild Iraq. No building experience, never been a contractor, right? No idea. Right. This is why these projects cost 500 times what they're supposed to cost. This is why when money comes into Buffalo, for example, $25 million to build homes, five get built. And you were, wait a minute, five, are these $5 million homes in the East side? Each of those homes would have been built for a quarter million dollars or less. And yet where did the rest of the money go? And the, the answer is never, we don't know. We don't know. We can't account for it. Or we'd have no idea. Or I mean, how many times have we've seen that in so many places that whether right down the local level or God forbid at the federal level between, you know, Iraq and others. I was telling you last week on the radio, I was reading an article about the grants that were coming into the city of Buffalo to plant trees. And I thought, okay, wow, like this could be sweet. Okay. You know, like I'm a big tree guy. I love trees. I plant trees every year. I do think, okay, that's one way to, first of all, I think it's one way to make a community look great. When you, when you drive around, let's say North Buffalo, all the streets are all tree. They look beautiful. You drive around the East side, it looks like shit, right? So, okay. You're going to take some of my tax money and you're going to directly plant trees. Okay. It's a win for the environment. It looks nice. It's going to bring things together. I'm like, well, where's the catch? This is a government agency. Where are they going to screw it up? You read through and you find out that they're paying $1 ,000 a tree. Now you and I both know that if they're saying it's $1 ,000 a tree, by the time it's done, it'll be two to $3 ,000 a tree. Now you, you're talking about $13 million worth of trees. You and I just planted trees. Every year we plant a few trees around our office, you know, three, four in the spring, three, four in the fall, just so they can start to grow and work their way in. And then, you know, plant more. We pay $250 a tree, plant it. Right.
Capstone Conversation
What Makes One City Better Than Another? Broker Ed Del Beccaro Weighs In
"From a broker's perspective, what makes one city better than another? Talk specifically about that approval process. Let's talk about that. First, we should talk about regional. So my workforce, we use what we call the phrase 360 commute shed. So depending upon the kind of tenant, so the original migration of tenants in the 80s and early 90s was from San Francisco to the greater East Bay. That's why you saw all the buildings built in San Ramon, Pleasanton, 680 Coroner, places like that. And one reason they moved is their workforce was there. So they followed the workforce in that case. So it wasn't that they didn't like San Francisco. So that's Chevron. That was Wells Fargo. That was B of A, Metropolitan Life Insurance, all the big users in that area. So they actually followed the workforce. And one reason why you follow your workforce, there's studies that if you have a one way commute of over an hour and 10 minutes or an hour and a half one way, you're going to lose 40 to 50 percent of your workforce. Therefore, I might love San Francisco or might love downtown L .A., but I have to go where I think I can get my workforce. And where's my workforce of the future? So first of all, it's a regional decision before it's a city decision. So even if I locate in a city as central as Walnut Creek, I might have some of my workforce coming from Fairfield, Benicia, Richmond, Oakland, South San Francisco and Tri -Valley. So what then? So therefore, the first question is, where is my workforce? Where is my future workforce? To answer the second question of where is my future workforce? I have a salary range that I can afford as a company. And the current insurance and banks are usually in the 60 to 130 thousand range. You then work that backwards. And if I hire somebody for one hundred thousand, one hundred twenty thousand, will that person be able to pay rent or buy a house in a given region? If they can't, if their average rental, if the average apartment rents are forty thousand a year, if the average mortgage is five thousand a year, five thousand a month, rather, then I have to move further afield. So that's why you see companies now leaving the inner bay, going to Sacramento and Austin region. Then within a region, once a decision is made that I can, my current workforce is in a given region, let's say East Bay. Then let's say the second thing is I know that I can afford my workforce over the next 10 years to live there and pay them the market rates. Then what city do I go to within a sub region? There, every city is the best when you ask the cities, but then we make decisions based on location to transportation, locations relative to interchanges, locations relative to barred mass transit. Because again, if I have people coming in from 360 degrees, 20 miles, let's say to 40 miles away from any given point, if I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to East County? If I'm in Fairfield, how do I get to San Ramon? If I'm in Tracy, how do I get to Walnut Creek? Or if I'm in Fremont, how do I get to Walnut Creek? So then we tried to centrally locate where most of those workers are. And then within that region, what cities have the better approval process? Because the new kinds of tenants that are coming into the region are not the back office tenants. That was pretty simple build out. Cubes, called them Dilbert Farms. That's what you saw the original migration wave. Now we have laboratories, we have more involved IT, more involved investment in infrastructure and more complicated uses. So then the question is, if we're going to grow and expand, what city next to a transportation central can best accommodate our strategy of expansion and with approvals? And then second, what's the business environment? Some cities, unfortunately, in our area have raised their business payroll tax to extraordinarily high. They're in effect, some companies won't go there. You go next door.
WCPT 820
"one reasons" Discussed on WCPT 820
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The Greg McAfee Show
Becoming #1 Puts a Target on Your Back
"Know, there's something about success, there's something about winning that drives some people nuts. They get extremely jealous, they get extremely envy, they're just uncomfortable around winners. Personally, I can't get my head around it. I try, but I can't get my head around it. Personally, when I'm around winners, I'm a sponge. I want to know how to win too. I want to learn from these people. Then I want to implement a few things in my life or my business. And sometimes I want to even do it better than they did. But sometimes when people see someone else achieving their goals and making great strides in personal life, in business, in sports, it brings like feelings of inadequacy or jealousy or envy. And unfortunately not everyone is able to set those feelings aside and genuinely celebrate someone's success. Again, I can't get my head around this. That's why I'm extremely passionate about talking about it today. Let's face it. Sometimes people hate winners because of their envy and the dislike for the good fortune of others. It's hard to even find much information online about this. When I was trying to Google, when you're number one, you're a moving target. I kept finding things like the number one reason you have a business you hate or hating your job intensely is not a business plan or running a business you hate. It's not what I was talking about. It's not what I was talking about. How to work with someone you hate. What do you do when you hate your boss? So Google couldn't even figure out what I was trying to do. And I tried many different formats and I never could get enough information on when you're number one, you're a moving target. We worked our way from the bottom. 546 heating and air conditioning companies somewhere around there in the Dayton area. When I first came in, I was number 547. And we gradually worked our way to the top to number one stayed number one for years. And it's we're a moving target. I mean, we've got people shooting arrows at us from the front, the side, the back angled from the tops. I mean, it's unreal. So, you know, maybe we can't find stuff like this on Google because our society in general, that's either it's either getting soft or we are jealous of others and we just admit it or I have no idea. I just really I have no idea. Okay, so competition is always going to be amongst us and we're going to have competition in business. Even though I told you I don't like competition, it doesn't really. You know why I don't like competition? Because I don't have any good competition. I don't I don't have any really good, solid competition. Well, you know, they say that we always have competition, but we just we just personally at McAfee, we just aim to be the best at what we do and take care of people and other companies just kind of get in our way because they don't get it. That might sound arrogant to you. It probably does, but I'm just telling the truth. We just take care of people better than we try to do it better than anyone else. And we strive to be the best. That's what we
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from News Block: FASB Change Bullish for Bitcoin, Surging Oil Prices, America's Savings Slump, FTX Liquidations & Ripple Acquires Fortress
"Welcome to the CoinStories news block. I'm Nathalie Brunel and in the span of just 10 minutes, roughly the same time it takes to mine a new Bitcoin block, I'll provide you with concise, insightful updates on Bitcoin and the global financial landscape so you're well informed on the week's top stories. Everything you need to know, in one place, in one block. Let's go. Fair value accounting is officially coming to Bitcoin and this development could mark a turning point for the adoption of Bitcoin at the corporate level. The Financial Accounting Standards Board, better known as FASB, voted unanimously to adopt new rules that would require businesses to report their Bitcoin holdings at fair value, meaning at the current market value. This is a major improvement that will allow companies to recognize both losses and gains on their Bitcoin holdings, just like other financial assets such as stocks and bonds. Prior to this recent FASB decision, companies had to treat Bitcoin as an intangible asset and the way those are reported require the company to record the price it originally paid for the asset, so in this case Bitcoin, and then reassess the value each quarter. If the asset value goes down during that time, the company has to mark the loss on its balance sheet. This is called an impairment loss. But if the value of that asset increases during that time, companies cannot mark the value of the asset back up, so they get hit with all the price drops and don't get to benefit from any of the price gains. And for an asset as volatile as Bitcoin, this has made holding it very prohibitive for companies. When companies have to mark down the value of an asset on their balance sheet, it negatively impacts their earnings report, and earnings often drive a company's stock price, valuation, and overall performance. This problem prompted Bitcoin industry leaders to request that FASB create new rules that would require businesses to use fair value accounting. After FASB declined this request on three separate occasions, it is finally voted to change them. Businesses holding Bitcoin will now get to mark their Bitcoin holdings when the price goes up and down during a quarter, eliminating some of the impairment losses on their balance sheets, and allowing them to more accurately report the value of their Bitcoin. The new FASB rules will become mandatory for all private and public companies beginning in 2025. What used to be a barrier of entry for companies considering buying Bitcoin is now close to becoming a thing of the past. And it's developments like this in the bear market that lay the foundation for the coming bull market. Okay, so soon it will be easier for corporations to put Bitcoin on their balance sheets, and many will need to as we enter what many analysts believe will be a more inflationary decade. A major factor that will influence the inflation picture moving forward is the price of oil, and lately it has been surging. Crude oil is up nearly 25 % in the last three months alone and recently hit a 10 -month high. One reason for the price increase is the combination of increasing demand and falling supply. Last week, OPEC +, the organization of the petroleum exporting countries led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, announced they will extend their production cuts until the end of the year. This latest OPEC Plus announcement comes as global oil supply is at the lowest level since 1985. At the same time, world oil demand recently exceeded pre -pandemic levels and continues to rise. If the demand is rising and supply is dropping, the price will likely continue to go up. And oil is strongly correlated with CPI inflation because it is an important input in nearly all sectors of the economy, from the direct production of goods to transporting them and helping power global supply chains. And when oil prices rise, gasoline prices at the pump typically follow suit, and that's exactly what we're seeing today. The cost of gasoline is a significant expense for households, and prices at the pump have increased year over year for the first time since February 2022. This latest surge in the price of gasoline doesn't bode well for the White House or the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation. Last time gas prices rose, the White House fought that increase by draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to levels not seen in 40 years. And that's our nation's stockpile of oil reserves, meant to be used in case of emergencies. Now the SPR remains depleted, with gasoline prices rising once again. The price of oil remains an X factor in the inflation picture. If these supply and demand dynamics do not improve, we could be entering a period of sustained higher inflation, and in that environment, owning scarce hard assets like Bitcoin is one way investors could potentially protect their savings. And speaking of savings, U .S. households badly need the ability to save and store value into the future. Saving rates are at the lowest level since the global financial crisis. Despite this, people are still out there spending, even though things are getting more expensive. Credit card debt is now at record levels, and the average interest on those credit cards stands at a ridiculously high 28%. This is a worrying trend, and this only serves to increase the fragility in the overall financial system. People are putting things on credit cards because the level of excess savings accumulated during the pandemic has been dwindling. During and even after lockdown, stimulus checks and various fiscal programs sent money directly to consumers, resulting in about $2 trillion in excess savings for U .S. families. This cushion was super useful, especially as the cost of living began to soar over the last three years. But that cushion has been deflating. Households have steadily drained their excess savings for 23 straight months, and now, if the current rate holds, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco expects these savings to run out in the current quarter. If we reach a point where these savings run dry, what happens next? More than half of respondents in a recent Bloomberg survey expect personal consumption to shrink by early 2024. This isn't great news for a consumer -driven economy and, ultimately, for employment. It has never been more evident that these households desperately need a money that holds its value over time and cannot be inflated away. And finally this week, let's touch on some crypto news affecting Bitcoin. Bitcoin's price remaining volatile, dropping back down toward $25 ,000. Some analysts are speculating this is related to fears over a potential liquidation of more than $550 million in Bitcoin connected to the FTX bankruptcy. On September 13, the U .S. Bankruptcy Court will decide whether or not to grant approval for FTX to liquidate billions worth of assets, including everything from cryptocurrency tokens to Bitcoin to beachfront real estate in the Bahamas. Many are speculating that FTX will obtain the green light. In July, FTX stated its intent to repay customers through a liquidation of its assets, so Bitcoin's recent price action could be related to the market beginning to price in this scenario. Another story that is increasing fear in the market is related to cryptocurrency custodian Fortress Trust. Surprising news came out last week that Fortress will be acquired by Ripple Labs, the issuer of XRP, for an undisclosed amount. The question became, why did Fortress sell now? News outlet The Block reported Monday that acquisition talks accelerated after it was revealed that Fortress client funds may have been compromised in a security breach involving a third -party analytics vendor. Fortress reported the incident in a string of tweets on September 7, stating that four Fortress customers were impacted by a security incident, but that no funds were lost. A spokesperson from Ripple told The Block that despite the security incident, the opportunity to buy Fortress made sense for Ripple in the long term, adding, Luckily, Ripple was in a position to act quickly to step in and make customers whole. That statement contradicts what Fortress has said publicly. So was there no loss of client funds as Fortress claims? And what would have happened to Fortress if Ripple had not been ready and willing to acquire the custodian? Now listen to this. BitGo CEO Mike Belshe summarized what happened on X, saying, When Fortress lost funds, they chose to omit facts about what happened, downplay the event, and conclude, most importantly, no funds were lost. Obviously, we now know this was not true. I guess what they meant to say is we believed we fixed the problem and we have taken steps to make sure clients are made whole, but those two statements are not even close to being the same. Now this situation certainly raises a lot of questions. In the aftermath of other high -profile cryptocurrency exchange and custodian bankruptcies, the market's appetite for this kind of news is extremely low. Some of Fortress' clients, including Bitcoin -only exchange Swan, confirmed that their customer's Bitcoin remains in insured cold storage wallets and did not move during this incident. Now we are still waiting for the full details of this acquisition and what exactly happened, but this serves as another important reminder of what can happen when investors trust third parties with their Bitcoin. We will say it again and again, not your keys, not your coins. Taking self -custody of your Bitcoin is the only bulletproof way for you to know with certainty that your Bitcoin is safe and free from counterparty risk. That's it for the News Block, your weekly Bitcoin and economic news update. I'm Nathalie Brunel. Make sure you're subscribed to Coin Stories so you never miss an episode. This show is for educational purposes and should not be construed as investment advice. Until next time, keep stacking.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Why Salvation Is Not By Works
"The Bible in verse number eight, Ephesians two and verse number eight, for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest the man should boast for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God before ordained that we should walk in them. We've been studying lessons pertaining to our duty as believers to bear witness to the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. This morning what we'll study is why salvation is not by works or why salvation is not of works. What sets biblical Christianity apart from every other religion in the world and even many denominations that go under the name of Christian is that the Bible teaches we are saved by the grace of God and that is apart from any human work or merit of any kind. We don't deserve salvation. We don't earn salvation. We don't work for our salvation. We don't pay for our salvation. It is a gift, the Bible says, that God gives to everyone who places faith and trust in the work that Jesus did on our behalf and that work was he went to the cross, he suffered, he bled, he died for our sins, he was buried, he rose again. All of this according to the scriptures. That's the gospel. Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe. The only thing I can do and the only thing I must do is trust in what he did. Salvation is by grace. The Bible makes it abundantly clear. Now here's what happens when you witness to people who say they are Christians. You're trying to witness somebody trying to give someone to the gospel and they say that they're a Christian. This is the issue you will have to be able to address, you will have to be able to articulate because there are so many people who say that they're Christians who have no idea what the Bible says about how to be saved. Because when you ask them if they're saved and they say that they are and you ask them how they got saved or how they know that they're saved, they answer with good things that they've not baptized. When you ask them how do you know you're saved, their answer shows you they're depending at least partly on something that they have done or will do or think they must do in order to go to heaven. It is a works salvation system. Roman Catholicism teaches salvation by works. The Church of Christ denomination teaches you've got to be baptized to be saved. That's a work. Mormons teach salvation by works. Jehovah's Witnesses teach salvation by works. Seventh -day Adventists teach salvation by works. Many Protestant denominations still teach salvation by works. The Pentecostals teach you have to keep your salvation, which is another way of saying that salvation is by works. So it's a really important issue to be able to address, to be able to articulate, especially when you're dealing with people, witnessing to people who are religious but they are lost. So we're going to give you six reasons from the Bible why it is, six reasons we can give to explain why salvation is not by works. Follow along, fill in the outline and the references are there in order for you. The first reason is because the Bible says so.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"one reasons" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Yeah. I mean, it's a tough job. I don't think Powell's flying as blind as Bailey is about where are we right now. It's always hard. Well, he's making a call on where he thinks we'll be at the end of the year, which a is much, much better inflation story to tell based on what he said in those comments right there. News flow extraordinary this morning talking Apple China, I've got you know, I'm up on a nine tenths percent down on 134 and NASDAQ is well this just in Anne will Marie curse without some polio. She's all over it for one reason and one reason only. Yeah, you know, there's a G seven. There's a G seven there, but we could do a G seven cruise. Everybody over for cocktails. Okay. Aperol spritzes is on a yard there. What do they drink on a young? You can get an Aperol spritz if that's what you'd like. Sure. You can get anything you want. We need 25 people to make this cruise happen and we're down to 24 that we need. It's a 25 person cruise. Yeah. That's what Royal Caribbean says. You got to have a minimum 25 people to get the, you know, the kinds of, to get the rooms that we would want to get credit at the casino. hate I that stuff. They have casinos on board. They have casinos on these boats. Do they have Bloomburgs on board? They probably have Bloomburg terminals on board. They should have Bloomburg terminals on board. Look for that. Balance That works. G7 next year. Saving us here on equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities is a gentleman you need to listen to. If you're in equities, if you're if in bonds, you're in commodities, Stephen Anglin is the definitive cross rates expert worldwide. never He's been out of a job. He holds court at Standard Charter Bank and G10FX. I've Stephen, got a seminar today I'm doing with Torsten Slocke of Apollo and other worthies wrapped around US dollar. Do you believe in dollar strength over the next 12 months? Look, I think the momentum that it's had recently is impressive, but we have a lot of factors that are driving it. Some robustness in the economy, weakness abroad, rates differential, primarily term premium, moving into dollars favor. I don't think that all of this will persist over the next year. But I think that the market is waiting to see a definitive turnaround to these factors before being comfortable selling the dollar again. The momentum trade is clearly dollar positive at this point. If America has a unique disinflation, how does the dollar change on a relative basis to other currencies if we get American disinflation? How does that play into the dollar call? Well, I think if we get disinflation with higher unemployment, it means lower rates. That's kind of what we expect. And we think that that would be enough even in this world to have the dollar in a gently weakening slope. I think for the weakening to be pronounced, I think you need to see some signs of growth elsewhere. But I would say that from all the Fed comments, they're very skeptical about disinflation for free. So I don't that think they'll be comfortable saying we've won unless they see some sign that the economy is responding. So yes, if you get to 2 % and there's no higher unemployment, the Fed will eventually ease. But I think still needs quicker if they see some signs that unemployment is picking up. And that would be the quickest path to dollar weakness. Steve, let's tee up your favorite subject and I'll tell you how much time we've got on the clock. Got about four minutes if you want want it. Steve, do you think the labour market data is overstating the market? You know, right now, we thought QCEW was going to have some risk of showing that it was much weaker than expected. That's a quarterly census, which is a very accurate count of jobs. You know, it showed some weakness, but mostly in Q4 of last year, nothing special in Q1 of this year. So, right now, the data seems to be okay. You know, but that said, indications the are that the labour market is slowing. What we suspect is the case is that claims are low, but that hiring is low as well. And we don't measure hiring, you know, we don't have data on hiring in real time as we have on claims, so we're missing that aspect. But, you know, that said, there's no ogre in in the the closet waiting to give us a massive downward revision. If that's the case, Steve, what we're market seeing right now. Why can't the euro keep falling versus the dollar in a significant way? You know, you have to think, you know, everywhere where you see this kind of weakness that there's bound to be a policy response. You know, I think that the Europeans are going to have to dig themselves out. I think that the you know, they so far have dealt poorly with the first with the the shock from the Russia -Ukraine war and secondarily with the shock from weaker Chinese demand. you know, they sort of talk about fiscal policy. They talk about investing in green technology. technology, excuse me, doing their version of the Inflation Reduction Act, Which is, you know, to stimulate investment in these sectors. I think they have to do something like that to get things to turn around. The other part about Europe is have we to see that the slowing in inflation is confirmed. In the data, there's some, but it's not as pronounced as it is in the United States and elsewhere.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Is the DOJ Simply Targeting Trump Supporters?
"Guarantee you there are many, many people who have murdered, who have raped, who have kidnapped, who have done horrific things, who got less than 22 years. You know, the phrase political prisoners is hard to shake off, isn't it? And the difficulty for me over this conversation is I'm not trying to make heroes out of the people who committed acts of violence on January 6th. They did enormous damage to this country. And giving the left and the Democrats this weapon against Trump is infuriating to me. And if that hadn't happened, they had nothing. You had thousands of people that showed up on January 6th and heard Trump give a speech. The end. And we'd be on to the next thing. I'm going to advance the theory and then I'm going to go to your calls. There's one reason, one reason alone this is happening. They're targeting Trump supporters. And it's happening all over the country. And it's happening from Trump on down. And they're weaponizing the Justice Department. They're weaponizing law enforcement as political actions. They're targeting Trump to stop him from running and winning in 2024. They're targeting Ken Paxton, the attorney general in Texas, because he's a staunch Trump supporter and a hardcore conservative and a big MAGA guy. They're trying to take him out through impeachment. Forget that the voters overwhelmingly elected him in a landslide. They're trying to impeach him and remove him because he's a Trump supporter, I believe. And of course, the people who are being sentenced to many, many, many years behind bars, it's because they're Trump supporters.
The Teachers Impact
A highlight from #69- Why Classroom Management Issues may not be your fault
"Welcome to the Teacher's Impact Podcast, or better yet known as the TIP, where teachers can come to master their craft, use their voice, and enhance student learning. This is episode 69 of the Teacher's Impact Podcast, better yet known as the TIP. I'm so excited because on today's episode, we'll be exploring how to strengthen behavioral support. I think a lot of times, as teachers, we get blamed for things that are outside of our control and sometimes we need to just sit back and reflect and see, okay, I've done the best that I could, but I'm still having some issues. What are causing those issues? Are those issues systemic issues that need to be dealt with? And after some reflecting myself, these are some of the reasons why you may be having classroom management issues. The first one is inconsistent implementation of PBIS, or Positive Behavior Intervention System. At the start of the year, everyone's excited, teachers are encouraged to prioritize classroom management. However, there's often a lack of concrete support or plans for those classroom management. And this leaves us educators feeling unsupported and overwhelmed when we encounter challenging behaviors that extend beyond what we can handle. And the thing with PBIS is that without a school -wide approach, it becomes challenging to address those issues effectively. When it comes to PBIS, follow -through is key. First, administrators need to work with teachers to design a comprehensive school -wide behavior plan, incorporating strategies to handle different types of behaviors. The other thing is regular check -ins and ongoing professional development can help reinforce these practices. Even more so, making sure that there's a support network for teachers where they can share their experiences and seek guidance. This is so important because when there's a network of support, not just the classroom teacher next door, but a network of support for teachers, things can be so much better. The second point is that it's essential not only to empower teachers, but also to train and equip support staff with the right tools to handle challenging behavior. Sometimes we might recognize that support staff does not have the necessary training and experience to handle those more -than -difficult behaviors that students exhibit, and there is no plan in place to address it. I've encountered situations where students displayed severe behavioral issues. And after exhausting my resources, I sought help from support staff. However, they often sometimes lack the necessary training to handle such difficult cases effectively. And inadequate solutions were offered to the specific problem, leaving the underlying issues addressed with that particular child. The third reason why classroom management issues may not be your fault is that students' underlying issues are sucked under the rug. It's very important to acknowledge that addressing underlying issues takes time and resources. However, when we neglect these problems, it can negatively impact the students with those behavioral challenges and also their peers. Recognizing the behavior and the possible causes can lead to a more empathetic and productive approach. Moreover, we should really encourage open communication between teachers, support staff, and administrators. This will create an environment where concerns about specific students can be raised without fear of judgment. And the without fear of judgment is a big point because sometimes teachers will not say anything because of the fear of judgment of them not having control over the classroom, feeling like they're not a good teacher because they don't have control over that particular child or control over their classroom. However, there needs to be an open line of communication with the support network so that teachers can feel supported and the actual problem can be addressed. One of the taboo reasons that sometimes does not get talked about with classroom issues that I think is important to shine a light on is the parent involvement aspect of it and the responsibility. It's unfortunate but true that sometimes parents fail to take ownership of their role in adding to the problem and sometimes a lack of self -awareness on their part allows the student's disruptive behavior to continue. And this leads teachers and students to deal with the aftermath of these challenging behaviors. So I think that working with parents, fostering a partnership between the home and school is so important for a holistic approach to addressing classroom management. When parents are actively involved and take responsibility for their child's behavior, it also adds to the support system that teachers need. And it can lead to a better understanding of why the child is behaving in the way that they're behaving and lead to more productive solutions. I also think it's crucial to think of this to have some empathy and understanding for the parents because yes, there are many challenges that they face such as socioeconomic challenges, language barriers, and cultural differences that may impede them from doing the things that we talked about before. So when we create a welcoming environment, we can encourage parents to actively participate and take responsibility for what's happening with their child at school. So these are some key takeaways from this episode of reasons why classroom management may not be your fault. The number one reason is that your school may have an inconsistent implementation of positive behavior intervention and support. There is not a school -wide effort to deal with management and behavior of all students. The second reason may be that support staff does not have the right tools to handle those challenging behaviors that you're encountering with your students. The third reason why you may be having classroom management issues that's not your fault is that students' underlying issues are swept under the rug as they move from grade level to grade level. The fourth reason why you may be having issues with classroom management is that there is a lack of parental involvement and responsibility when it comes to that child's behavior. When we look at these reasons, we can see that it's not just the classroom teacher that is responsible for classroom management. Yes, the teacher does have a big role in that aspect of it, but there are certain things that need to be taken into consideration when we're looking at classroom management as a whole and have a holistic and comprehensive approach to it. Thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to check out the website, teachersimpact .net. If you found this content helpful, please share, favorite, and rate on your favorite podcast app. It helps the show to grow, reach more teachers, and have an impact. You can email me at teachersimpacteducation at gmail dot com or follow me on Instagram at teachers impact podcast.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from I sold my Bitcoin..
"I sold my Bitcoin today, I did it, I finally capitulated, I sold. But I didn't sell into USD, I actually sold some of my Bitcoin into Ethereum today in a big portfolio shift that I want to fully explain because I think it has a lot of ramifications not only for my own portfolio but potentially for your portfolios as well. So in today's video I want to talk about why today I shifted some of my Bitcoin into Ethereum and my thesis behind why Q4 could potentially be a better month for Ethereum than it is for Bitcoin. Obviously over recent time Bitcoin has outperformed in the lead up to the spot ETF hype but as that hype starts to subside I think we are seeing on the charts a few reasons start to unfold why Ethereum might be starting to outperform Bitcoin and it's an important one for the market because ETH being the biggest coin that's synonymous with the alts at the end of the day does dictate altcoin performance to a certain extent so this is a very important trade in my opinion and I want to break down my full thesis and give you my detailed overview and analysis as to why I made this market move and what we can expect in Q4 because I think it is going to be, especially September, a pretty pivotal month for crypto in what has been a fairly shaky market in recent times. So let's talk about it, important thoughts on ETHBTC. Now, the first thing I want to note is the ETHBTC chart, this is a very very interesting one you can see it has been in a downtrend, you can see these red circles here indicate the lower highs that have been set in for ETHBTC on the daily timeframe, you can see we had deviation above horizontal resistance but since then we broke back down below and then we did have a bearish retest of this diagonal channel and then we've come right all the way down onto this horizontal support multiple times but in recent times we've actually held this level quite well and I think the real noticeable thing over the last few days has been the response that Ethereum BTC has had considering the market's been dropping, Bitcoin's been coming down, a lot of altcoins have been smacked even over the past month, altered down 30 -40 % yet ETHBTC is actually technically in an uptrend. You have your low set in here at the 0 .6 level, then you have a higher low, then you have this week which isn't really what I would consider to be a lower low considering there was no official daily close, the actual daily close was above support, it was just one big shake out event and then since then we've had two successful bullish retests of this support line. So given the fact that the charts are saying this, what are the fundamentals saying? What are the driving narratives behind why the chart is starting to show a little bit of a reversal here and you know I've been talking about ETHBTC on the show for so long and I want to get into this weekly chart as well that I've shown on the show multiple times in the past so I think for the viewers right now this would be a great one to update you on just my general thoughts on the market because ETHBTC is probably the most important chart right now alongside dominance in my opinion, at least from an altcoin perspective. So the first reason why I think in the short term, so this video is more referencing the next two to three months than it is like the next year, in the short term I think there are a few reasons why it could outperform, let's break down these reasons because they are important structural drivers behind the market. The first reason is that Bitcoin has a pretty severe supply overhang in Q4, I did speak about it a little bit at the start of the week, but Bitcoin specifically, more so than other altcoins, has a lot of overhang. So you have the US government Silk Road Bitcoin that is set to be released onto the market, we know that at the beginning of the year they announced their plan to sell 41 ,000 Bitcoin which they acquired from the Silk Road seizure. They have essentially sold half of that throughout the year, 19k, sorry they haven't sold half of it, they transferred half of it this year with around half of that, around 20 ,000 Bitcoin set to be sold. So you can see here they have been shifting this Bitcoin around, they do have a mandate to sell it by the end of the year, so this is supply that is going to hit the market at some point this year. I don't want to fud and say that Bitcoin is going to crash because of this because we know at the end of the day 20 ,000 Bitcoin, the market can absorb but it is a fairly liquid environment right now so you do have to be wary of these sell events. You also have the Gox Bitcoin, this is a story that has been talked about and speculated about for quite some time, I've done videos on it myself. We know that it was at one point potentially overhyped as a bearish trigger, I do believe that the market will be able to absorb this liquidity but we do now have a confirmed date which is the end of October for when creditors are going to start getting their Bitcoin. This means that as of the end of October creditors will be able to start selling their Bitcoin if they did opt to receive a Bitcoin payment versus a USD payment, so that is something to know. You also have a lot of altcoins, not on the Bitcoin side but also altcoins which could impact the market starting to be liquidated, Sol but also BTC as we discussed before and also Ethereum, Aptos, Doge, Matic hitting the market from the FTX liquidations, like they're basically being forced to sell to payback creditors. The one thing I'll say here is it's only 500 million so I don't think it's going to have a huge impact especially because it's dispersed across like 10 different tokens but it's going to have some sort of impact on the market. So the first reason why I think Bitcoin may struggle in Q4 is because you have kind of this double whammy effect of supply overhang hitting the market, so Mt Gox, Silk Road in combination with basically this apathy from market participants given the fact that we don't have a spot ETF ruling. So the market essentially right now is hanging out, it's waiting for this spot ETF approval or rejection so it can make its next move but unfortunately you have this apathetic nature from the market in tandem with overhang coming onto the market and the question I would have is will demand be able to outpace the additional selling pressure? Now that's a very complex question to answer but my gut feel that I'm going off is no and that's why I think the likelihood is probably to the downside in the Bitcoin market in general unless we get a shock ETF approval before the end of 2023 or at least a strong indication that we're going to get one. Maybe the SEC comes out and says they're like I don't know somehow going to approve one. Although what we saw today was the spot ETF being continuously delayed. So we saw multiple spot ETFs be delayed today, Fidelity, BlackRock, Bitwise, they basically all got delayed and we know that the SEC is going to do this. We know that they're going to take as much time as possible to make a decision or at least as much time as possible to find a reason maybe to critique a Bitcoin spot ETF and for this reason I don't actually expect an approval until December at earliest but most likely next year. We know that the ARK21 shares filing is going to be the first one that has a final deadline so that's going to be on the 10th of January. I think the 10th of January is like probably the first date we're going to get like a concrete answer and it may be even later because there may be some reason that the SEC finds over the next few months to actually reject ARK. So let's just see what happens but the reason I'm making this point is because until then the market's pretty bored. It's pretty despondent in a way because a lot of people are kind of losing hope and the narrative is getting a bit exhausted. The Bitcoin spot ETF narrative which was so powerful it's getting exhausted because people know it's going to happen, they know the probabilities are high, they just now want to know when and it keeps getting delayed and this does create this element of boredom in the market and you do need an active market for buyers to step in and when you get sell pressure in a boring market that can often create a little bit of havoc which is why I'm just a bit wary going into Q4 and once again I'm not bare posting here. This whole video is about you know Ethereum right and why I made a little bit of a shift today from Bitcoin into Ethereum so if I was complete bear I would have gone into stablecoins right but I still do expect a little bit of downside on Bitcoin if I'm taking the pragmatic point of view. If of course we get some shock announcement before then which is always possible I do think we have to reconsider our thesis here but all we can do is go off the information that's right in front of us and of course the ETHBTC thing is a big thing I still need to get through the rest of my logic here to explain it.
Bitcoin Audible
A highlight from Read_762 - Bitcoin's Security Model Deep Dive
"When discussing consensus mechanisms for different cryptocurrencies, one issue that often causes arguments is a lack of understanding and definition of the security model that they provide for the historical data in the ledger. The best in Bitcoin made audible. I am Guy Swan and this is Bitcoin Audible. What is up guys, welcome back to Bitcoin Audible. I am Guy Swan, the guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know. We've got another blast from the past today, but this is another great one from Jamison Lop that is basically forever applicable because it's a deep dive, it's a breakdown of the Bitcoin security model. I think it's interesting just to kind of think about it from the context of 2016 when this was written and then now how much different the hash and mining landscape is. But just to be able to kind of take this model and do the same sort of math and the same sort of, especially, it's funny too, how much, this was in 2016 so this was before the block size war. And there are two things in this that he basically lays out that kind of give you the full outcome of the block size war before the block size war happened. One reason why the block size war happened and then another reason as to why the full nodes, why the user activated soft fork won during the block size war. But obviously it's not really in that context, he just kind of lays out some important structural elements of the security and the power dynamics in Bitcoin. And it's like you take that to their logical conclusion and you have the outcome of the block size war which I thought was just kind of fascinating. You know, I've always contended that the big blockers, the reason that the hard fork side lost wasn't just because they had the wrong path thinking ahead, but because they didn't understand Bitcoin as it was today. And maybe if they did understand those critical elements, those kind of deeper elements of Bitcoin, they could have won the block size war in some form or fashion or at least they could have not lost so miserably. But you can also say they would have chosen a different path and they wouldn't have had the mindset that they did. But anyway, we'll get into that a little bit in the guys take. Let's go ahead and hit the article and we'll thank our sponsors real quick before we do. This show is brought to you by the Fold debit card and app. This is literally the center of all of the things that I do in banking now. All of my fiat goes through Fold and I just get sats back on freaking everything. I use the gift cards whenever they're available, I use the debit card to get 1 % back on everything, and I get spins constantly so I just get free sats. I know for some of you it's not in your jurisdiction, but if it is available to you, you've really got to check out Fold. BitcoinAudible .com slash Fold. You can actually get 100 ,000 free sats right now. And then you can put those sats into your cold card hardware wallet which you can get 9 % off of with code BitcoinAudible. I have recently learned, thanks to UTXO over at Nodeless, a very disheartening news that a lot of you, even the Bitcoin only -ers, still have your Bitcoin on Coinbase or Binance. And I'm not kidding, this like literally worries me. Please, get a cold card, get a solid hardware wallet, get a tap signer. They're really cheap. None of this, so much of this is easy and affordable for securing your life savings. And it certainly doesn't hurt that you get 9 % off with code BitcoinAudible. Get a cold card and withdraw, please. And lastly, you want to accept Bitcoin and Lightning in your online store and you want zero, none of the headache? That is why Nodeless exists.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Short Stuff: Evil Eye
"Elevate your travels with the city advantage executive card the only card with admirals club membership earn advantage miles and loyalty points on your Purchases plus premium benefits that take your trips above and beyond expectations visit city .com slash executive for a bonus miles offer travel on Hey and welcome to the short stuff, I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here to Given us the evil eye. Mmm for all the trash we've ever talked about her and frankly it's working because I just Blew a tire on the way here to work. Is that a euphemism? No, no, I blew a tire and I lost my checkbook Mmm, you were at the grocery store. They rang everything up. Mm -hmm You're standing there looking and they were then they said you have to pay now and you want oh and you reached in your purse To get your checkbook out. I reached in my front pocket of my shirt and then you're like, does anyone have a pen and Twelve people under the age of 75 behind you rolled their eyes inside Mm -hmm, and they had a pen but it leaked all over my hand. They gave you the evil eye big Thanks to our pal Dave Bruce and the old folks at how stuff works calm For this bit on the evil eye what we in our house call the stink eye Yes, also, thanks to Antonio Paglia Rullo Who is the author of a book on the evil eye the evil eye Colin the history mystery and magic of the quiet curse? Dave talked to a lot about this because not only did Antonio write that book his grandmother was an evil eye Doer away with practitioner when he was growing up That's right, if you don't know what we're talking about we're talking about what turns out to be a very very old I don't know what you call a tradition. What do you what is custom? Superstition. Yeah, all those things where someone will give you the evil eye. Someone will shoot you a glance We call it the stink eye again. Yeah, and it's it's wordless. You don't have to say a thing. You don't have to have a What is a little voodoo doll There's a big there's a quick cello sting going on in the background 100 % you got to take that that small string section around with you It means basically well originally I think it was sort of came from jealousy or envy but can also be just someone's angry or they resent you or Maybe they're being greedy or something and it's generally always intentional But I was surprised to learn From our friend here who wrote that book that it can be unintentional. I didn't realize that but I mean I guess I guess if you're coveting Something are you jealous of somebody to the left of the person you accidentally look at and give the evil eye That's the best I can come up with for unintentional evil eye This goes all the way back to the Greeks and possibly before right? Oh, yeah long before the Greeks but Plutarch was maybe the first person to actually write about it He was a philosopher and historian as everybody knows and he wrote some essays that were collected into something called Moralia And he talked about the evil eye in that his whole jam. Was that your eyes are a source of energy That shoot out that shoot the energy out into the world around you and that reminded me Chuck of our stereoscopic episode where that one one of those ancient physicians would had their their theory was that we see by shooting beams out at Stuff. Yeah, and that's how we see and I guess that's kind of what it was based on. Yeah, totally the basically the body fills up with that jealousy or rage or whatever and It clouds the mind and then the eyeballs are right there in front of the mind to sort of Display for the world whatever the mind is thinking and in this case, it's evil Yeah, and it goes when you shoot the evil eye out of your eyes that was Plutarch's take and apparently that was the popular Take of it. Yeah, and depending on what culture you are from and your your ancestry is Sort of about you might have a long rich tradition of evil eye shooters or or Blaming everything that happens to you. That's bad on an evil eye that was shot your way Yeah, because it's not just stuff that happens to you directly like an injury or an illness It can also be things that happen to the things you depend on like your smartphone Exploding in your pocket. Remember what that used to happen. Yeah They are blowing a tire smartphones did They didn't catch on fire, right? Am I making that up? There were like mild explosions with some I want to say an Android at some point in time Yeah blowing up in people's pockets and everyone's like ha boy remember when that was a thing Yeah, and now they're right back in her pockets again back in the aughts. Yeah. Everybody's like, I don't care I love smartphones so much. I'll just take the risk. That's right so back to Antonio who wrote the book the evil eye he is Catholic and Italian and he said, you know, we don't even have like baby showers over here like that That's considered bad luck to have a baby shower. Like you're tempting fate or something like that yes, so it's a you know, sort of a superstitious danger and Over there and this is kind of true anywhere in any culture that has an evil eye history They will have protections against evil eyes like amulets and things like that and pregnant women would wear amulets in Italy Apparently at least in his family and they would say these special prayers to ward off the evil eye Yeah, and the reason why Having something like a baby shower would tempt fate and maybe attract an evil eye Is that it could be taken as like a boast or something and roasting can generate? Envy or jealousy and envy or jealousy can shoot out of your eyes as the evil eye and then your smartphone blows up in your Hand during the baby shower. Yeah, look at me I made a human and in particular babies children pregnant women and animals are the most vulnerable to the evil eye Although it can happen to anybody But there's different traditions and customs for protecting against the evil eye Depending on where you are in the world. Like you said in Turkey when you are a newborn baby You're gonna get what's called a nazar? Which is a dark blue? Circle with a white circle inside it in a dark blue circle inside the white circle and it's meant to be an eye And Chuck I say we take a break and we'll come back and tell everybody whose eye it is after this know ooh You friends seeing a doctor when you're sick is enough to make you sick or sicker and involves a lot of time and Effort at a time when you're least equipped to provide either so we want to talk about Teladoc, which is a far better alternative It's putting the humanity into health care. Yeah, think about what happens when you're sick and you have to see a doctor You've got a schedule an appointment and that could take days sometimes weeks to get in then you have to go to the doctor Even though you're probably feeling miserable and then you have to wait in the appropriately named waiting room Exposed to whatever the people around you are coughing and spewing into the air. 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Yeah Yeah, and like you said depending on where you are you might have different traditions for warding this thing off a lot of these countries are Middle Eastern or somewhere around the Mediterranean Sea I believe Dave Even said in his own family his grandmother in the Jewish tradition would tie Ribbons on cribs and things like that to ward off the evil eye or potential bad luck for newborn babies in that right? Yeah for sure in India They'll put some coal a black dot on the in Infants face and all these the point of these the nazar the red ribbon the black dot on the face They're meant to protect they're they're basically amulets or talisman that can protect against the evil eye and one reason why they based that on the eye of Horace is because in ancient Egypt the eye of Horace was painted on homes painted in tombs and it offered protection from evil or malintent or all sorts of problems even back then and so it kind of got mmm, you know how they take like You century know it goes from really ornate to like really stylized and simple That's basically what happened to the eye of Horace when it became the nazar. Yeah, that's a good way to say it Well, thank you and our book author also like you mentioned his grandmother Paglia Rulo's Grandma would keep a bowl of water in her kitchen and poured little drops of olive oil in there and look at the shapes and the patterns that the oil would take and Apparently that would inform her on the evil eye and if there was like someone in her family that was potentially in danger or a neighbor or something that Possibly will be or was stricken with the evil eye and I thought that was really interesting I don't know if it literally was like hey that looks like Our Gary our neighbor, right or if it's just you know, kind of reading the tea leaves, right? I'll put that olive oil was so good, too So you said that this all kind of came out of the Mediterranean did you not yes They've traced it back at least 5 ,000 years ago to tell Brock which is a city in Mesopotamia Which is tell Brock is a modern -day Syria right now and they found tiny figures that all kind of bear a resemblance to one another They call them eye idols and that they think that these offered protection as well Did you look up the eye idols of tell Brock do I didn't if? Et is not based on that. I will eat my head It's Identical to eat. It's crazy how much it looks like et man There's nobody who's seen et and would see one of those and be like, I don't know like it looks exactly like et All right, I'm looking it up and that is et. Yeah in that nuts That is et. I mean that is unmistakably an et head, right? But also even the body resembles et the proportions and everything. Yeah, that's true I don't see any arms and legs, but it does have that big squatty body. Well, thank God I don't have to eat my hat today Because they just pile on everything else bad that's happened. Was it like a sweaty old baseball cap. Mm -hmm Salty, you know, it's got the white salt streaks. It'll never come out. No, thanks So, I guess that's about it, huh for for evil eye. I got nothing else. Yeah There's all sorts of amulets and talisman you can use to protect yourself If you feel like somebody gave you the evil eye you can also say please don't look at me like that anymore I don't know what's wrong with you. That will also dispel the magic too. That's right.
Bankless
A highlight from David's Take: This is the Last Cycle
"Welcome, Bankless Nation, to Davis Takes, where every single week I drop a take in the Bankless newsletter and I read it to you here on the Bankless podcast. Last week I wrote about my big takeaways from ECC and all the industry themes that I identified from attending the talks, meeting with others, and overall just integrating the knowledge that is shared at these events. If you missed that episode, definitely go back and listen to it because the information there I think will help you navigate the next meta of crypto that we are seemingly soon to be embarking upon. This week I continue that exploration of industry themes and progression in a very boldly title. This is The Last Cycle, in which the title itself caused a bunch of controversy on crypto Twitter almost exclusively from people who didn't actually read the article. But how could I blame them for not reading the article because if people actually did read articles in this industry, then I wouldn't need to read them aloud on the podcast. I say right in the introduction, quote, the next crypto cycle is going to be the last one, end quote, is kind of a meme statement in crypto land. It's been stated before, and I don't mean to make a clear, convicted prediction about this. I'm simply connecting some dots across the crypto landscape that point towards a new phase of crypto after this bear market is concluded. If you look closely, there are a handful of signs pointing towards crypto entering its last market cycle before finally exiting its developmental phase and entering its long term era of maturity, stability and growth. This is the subject of this week's take. But first, before I read you my take, a moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors that make this show possible. Extra thanks to Kraken, our preferred exchange for crypto in 2023. 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I hope you are ready to hear about why I think that this might be the last cycle that crypto ever produces. And the first reason, the first rationale I have is about the regulatory and institutional approval climate in crypto right now. Crypto is going through its largest regulatory battles ever. Indeed, this has always been inevitable. As an industry based around money and finance, we cannot simply just waltz into mainstream acceptance without going through the trials of regulatory acceptance. In order for the biggest players to be able to play in Web3, they need assurances that the nation state and its monopoly on violence actually allows them to do so. Becoming mainstream means that crypto makes it through these regulatory trials. But don't be scared. Crypto wins no matter what. All we have to do is wait until the hazing is over and it can only last for so long.
The Cryptoshow - blockchain, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and decentralization simply explained
A highlight from #457 WHY IS DEFICHAIN PUMPING?? WHAT'S NEXT??
"Welcome to The Crypto Show, your podcast for everything around crypto, blockchain, bitcoin, and more. Here is your host, international blockchain expert, serial entrepreneur, and investor, Dr. Julian Hasp. Why has DeFi Chain been doing so well over the past week, where most coins had dramatic sell -offs, Bitcoin's been selling off, and most coins really had a hard time to catch up there. And DeFi Chain has really done extremely well. And in this video, I want to analyze this. I'm going to give you six reasons that I see right now. Obviously, I'm going to give you my thoughts on what I think going forward. And I am going to try to analyze this as rational as possible. Now, I want to be very clear. I invest myself heavily in DeFi Chain, so I'm definitely biased. I'm going to try to take that bias out, stay as neutral as possible. Obviously, nothing of that is financial advice, just like all the other videos. So, please do your own due diligence and understand this a bit. So, let's dive in. Reason number one. Obviously, DeFi Chain, especially in the first half of the year, nothing to write home about. We could even go back all the way since the Terra Luna collapse. I think DeFi Chain since then has had a very rough time against Bitcoin. Obviously, also against the US dollar, but Bitcoin also had a very rough time against the US dollar since the Terra Luna collapse about one and a half years ago. And DeFi Chain massively, especially also because of the hybrid stablecoin, the USD. And then there was just a lot of FUD, a lot of fear in general. I want to be very clear. Altcoins in general had a very hard time in the first half of this year against Bitcoin. And what I just think a little bit is a bit of a reversal to the mean. In a sense where, sure, at some point, it sells off so much that people are like, okay, at that point, I'm not selling anymore. It's way too cheap. At some point, people actually jump in and say, okay, you know what? This is getting way too cheap. Let me buy something. Let me reallocate. I knew a lot of people on the DeFi Chain side who were big, big, big fans in 2020, 2021. And then took profits and just stayed a bit on the sidelines and are now coming back into the markets. And so I think that is kind of the first reason. And obviously, this can happen at any time. But I think when there are certain things that kind of align, suddenly this changes to this very positive price momentum. So, I mean, obviously, this could have happened a month ago. This could have happened in a month. I think that's just right now. There's a couple of forces that are coming together. So that's the first one. Nothing to write home about. It's been a brutal last 12 months. So kind of saying that right now, DeFi Chain has been doing well. Sure, we're smiling who are investing in DeFi Chain. But at the same time, we also have to be honest and say, okay, it's not been all too easy. So very straightforward. Reason number two, and that's something I've been discussing a lot, is the metachain layer. That's going to be built on top of DeFi Chain. DeFi Chain itself is a Bitcoin fork, very similar kind of principles, extremely robust, extremely safe, but not much to build on it. So everything always requires an upgrade. And so now with the metachain layer, there's an EVM layer, which is basically an Ethereum fork that's coming on top. And that's completely unique. There's no other chain who has the Bitcoin base with an EVM layer on top. And that's going to allow it to actually stream or connect Bitcoin and Ethereum. It's going to be very uniquely positioned. And there's a lot of projects already who have shown interest to build on there. And I think there's going to be a lot more, especially with this idea of connecting Bitcoin and Ethereum. And that's going to be very powerful. So I think that is going to be something that obviously is building. It looks like we're getting to the final stage of when metachain can actually come out. This has been very difficult. And I mean, the core developers for I think the last six weeks always thought, okay, we're right there. And then there was something that they found that had to get it improved and get ahead to get it trusted. So I think that hype right now is just coming, becoming more real. A lot of projects are starting to notice, okay, you know what, that's the time. That's the moment.
Mark Levin
The Republican Establishment Is Mostly Flatfooted
"More over unlike the Democrat Party the Republican establishment would rather betray its own base conservatives and try marginalize to it than battle the Democrat Party preferring to make appeals to the Democrat Party media demonstrate their supposed bipartisan common sense in pursuit of temporary political power and positive media coverage Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and the likes of Mitt Romney Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski Chris Nunes Hutchison Asa and Chris Christie are but a few contemporary examples of this defeatist mindset it is also one reason why and they Republicans like them constantly target Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Cruz, Ted Mike Lee and others who understand the nature of the threat and are willing to confront it takes uncommon fortitude, principles and foresight to recognize and engage the Democrat Party its surrogates and the American Marxist movements in addition to literally putting your career and freedom on the line you must deal with a rear guard action from the Party Republican even with all this I don't believe it can be said that the the Republican Party as an institution hates America or exists to again fundamentally transform America . it's not the home of the various Marxist movements that plot daily and in a thousand The Democrat Party seeks to effectively sideline the Republican party with repeated efforts to
Game Dev Unchained
A highlight from 0330: Mastering Metaverse: John Krajewskis Eco Adventure
"What's up everybody, welcome to another episode of Game Dev Unchained, the number one game development podcast about game development and the lifestyle thereof. I am your host, Brandon Pham and with me joining is Jon Krajewski. Yeah, I knew I would be able to. How's that? Pretty close. Jon Krajewski. Thanks. Great to be here. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, Jon. So this is part of the podcast where I let our guest, which is yourself, to introduce yourself to the listeners out there of where you've been, where you're at right now, where you're heading. Just a little short preview before we get going. Sure. Yeah. So I'm a founder, CEO of a company called Strange Loop Games and we're building a virtual world game called Eco, which is currently out on Steam. And taking it to the next level, expanding it, creating some new stuff for it. So a pretty exciting place right now. My background is I used to work at EA over in Brisbane, Australia, I worked at Midway before that. So I've worked in a number of AAA titles and then started my own shop about 14 years ago. We've grown it to 32 people, got an awesome team, really passionate global team. We run a remote studio, we hire from our community a lot. So yeah, it's been a fun ride and our latest game has really been resonated with people more than any of the other ones we've done. So this is something that we're like expanding, we want to turn it into a platform and really start to grow it a lot. For those who haven't clicked through, can you kind of talk about what your latest game is? Sure. Sure. So game's called Eco. And the idea is you are building a virtual society inside of an ecosystem. So everything you do impacts the environment and you are doing this with other people. So you have to make decisions as a group and decide kind of the course of this world. And the threat to the world is there's a meteor that's going to hit the planet in 30 real life days. And so you have to build up technology. So you start from just a pure wilderness and you are building technology, doing research, creating an industry, an economy, a government, advancing this world all the way to the modern day where you can have the technology to stop this meteor from impacting the earth. So not only can you, there's kind of these bookended threats of there's this meteor that's going to hit the planet, but you can also destroy the ecosystem in the process. So a huge part of the game is just leading this group, running this virtual society, because it's all real people. You have to make decisions as a group. So you can create a government, you can create laws. Those laws are binding within the server. So players are really able to craft not just the physical shape of this world and their homes and buildings and towns and roads and everything, but also the civic structure. So you're creating the government, you're creating the economy, you're defining how things should work. You're creating a constitution within the economy. You can buy and sell goods, but also services, you can have contracts between each other. So it's really the game. The focus of the game is this, this idea of like a living kind of society that grows over time that you're advancing with other people and all the just emergent stuff that happens from there. So yeah, it's been super fun to work on and still in early access, but we're and we got a big update coming. Eco 10 is about to release, which has a bunch of new stuff and yeah, and then we have big plans for it beyond that as well. Well, I want to just say congratulations for you guys' success. And can you give us a little idea when you guys first released an early release? Yeah, we were 2018 on Steam. We were like a few months before that on our website, but yeah, so it's been five years in early development. And we've had a chance to grow the team from our basically, you know, being able to have revenue during that time lets us like actually grow the team and start to accelerate development. We're currently raising funding, talking to some VCs, so that'll kind of be used for our next stage. But yeah, it's been a good process. There's a lot of things I want to circle back to just the idea of early release and you know, the whole mystery there when it comes to like, you know, the decision making. But the number one reason why I was super excited to talk to you is like, of course, you know, you're doing everything you can to avoid the word metaverse, but like the last two years, right, you know, that was one of the buzz words and it got exciting. And then now it's kind of, you know, has like a bad taste in people's mouth because of how people were branding it. But, you know, to us, this is just a regular game to our industry. You know, we've been building these kind of ecosystems, this idea of like, like MMOs, like people socializing. For listeners out there, I would love to kind of hear your view on what is the concept of the metaverse and for those who are not familiar with it and you know, what is your idea that a metaverse quote unquote should aspire to, you know, at least the good things that people are attracted to. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You notice I kind of avoid that word just because it is such a like loaded term now. Yeah. I mean, I think there's a lot of really great ideas that come with the metaverse, but it has been pretty deeply associated with some stuff that consumers are, you know, especially gamers are not particularly into namely web three and crypto. Yeah.
The Cryptoshow - blockchain, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and decentralization simply explained
A highlight from #456 WORST WEEK SINCE FTX!! Whats Next??
"Welcome to The Crypto Show, your podcast for everything around crypto, blockchain, bitcoin, and more. Here is your host, international blockchain expert, serial entrepreneur, and investor, Dr. Julian Hasp. The worst week in crypto is behind us since the crash of FTX last year. My goodness, what a week, especially Friday, Saturday, I think, or Thursday, Friday, depending on which time zone you're in. It was brutal. And I want to discuss what could be the potential reasons for the crash. I want to discuss how long is this crash going to keep going. And obviously, I want to discuss what are other things that we need to look at. So let's get going. We're going to start with crypto. Normally, we've always started with earnings. We've started with macro. This is completely irrelevant right now. Someone is selling bitcoin and is selling it aggressively. Now, obviously, the big reason for the massive crash were all the liquidations that got built up. Why these liquidations? Well, it's very simple. When the market goes sideways, people get very boring. They are overconfident and they build up these leverage positions because they want to make money even out of the small volatility. A lot of those people who use a lot of quant models during those times, for example, they start realizing that the volatility is way too low. Then they start building the positions, get well confident, and then bam, over a billion dollars got liquidated in 24 hours. And so this just kind of highlights again, don't trade dollar cost average, invest for the long term. Now, there was a trigger. And the question is, what was that trigger? And there are several factors. First, and that was kind of the big rumor here, SpaceX slash Elon Musk selling bitcoin. Now, I want to be very clear, there's absolutely no evidence to that. It could easily be that SpaceX and Elon sold bitcoins. But absolutely it's that there's no evidence in that that this actually had anything to do with the sell off. Sure, it may have exacerbated it with the news, but if those bitcoins were sold, then they got sold already way earlier. So completely irrelevant, in my opinion. If that had been the case, then I would expect a bounce back up relatively soon. Now, I don't think that was much of a case, so I'll discount that. Number two was the Evergrande debacle, where Evergrande is filing for Chapter 15 bankruptcy. Why Chapter 15? Very simple, in comparison to Chapter 11, which basically puts all the assets into the US jurisdiction. Chapter 15 only segregates those assets. Now, a lot of people are talking here that this is a very smart move from Evergrande Everyone who invested in the US because they only get what are the assets in the US and they kind of segregate everything out from the rest of the market. So this is obviously a key topic and it's definitely part of the issue. I want to be very clear, we also saw this with stocks. Stocks also sold off quite heavily, so something to really kind of keep in mind. Let's see how this kind of goes on. It's going to be interesting to see, is China going to support its local investors? Yes or no? And I think that's going to be a key kind of focus point. Now, obviously, topic number three is the entire story around Michael Burry. I had discussed this last week already. People knew that it was not $1 .6 billion as a short bet, but then there's just a lot of iffy stuff going on in the markets. People are worried about recession, people are worried about things not going so well. So there is some belief or there's some credible kind of story that, well, it's just not going well. And so people are on their toes, right? I think there's no secret about this. You feel this left and right. And so with all this, it does make sense that people are just a bit more on the worried side. And I do think that kind of just helped that kind of crash, but I don't think it was probably the main kind of consequence. One that I kind of threw around, because at that point it wasn't clear if it was going to have an impact or not, was the entire Grayscale stuff. Now, the Grayscale stuff is the only ETF. If that one gets approved, then we're going to see a strong sell -off in Bitcoin. And I know a lot of people don't understand that. But the reason for that is very simple. These Bitcoins in Grayscale are already sold. They got sold. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a discount. So these Bitcoins are basically sitting in limbo and are just waiting to hit the public market. And this can only happen once either Grayscale actively decides to do this. And they don't want to do that because they are making 2 % net on that. And they know exactly what's going to happen. At the moment, that discount is whatever, 20%. So there's a couple billion dollars that are just waiting to hit the market. And that would cause a massive crash. Now, once it gets converted to an ETF, then anyone can do this. And what the trade would be that people are going to use US dollars, they're going to buy Grayscale. So Grayscale is going to go up slightly. So they buy back those Bitcoins that are in limbo. They are not going to buy new Bitcoins. They're going to buy those Bitcoins that are in limbo. And then they're going to use a short position on Bitcoin futures, pocketing the difference, which is like a 20 -25 % net gain. So I would do this trade if I would have the information up front that there's actually this conversion. And I had this speculation that on Friday, there was going to be news around this. And so a lot of people front -ran that. Now, there's the story that this may only happen on Tuesday. I don't know. So we're going to see. And the odds of there nothing to happen is actually the highest. So I just kind of said, hey, look, guys, this could be one of the reasons. And I still think it could be one of the reasons. I want to be very, very clear on this. So let's see how this Grayscale story is going to continue. Again, it's the only ETF, if that thing gets converted or gets approved, then I think that would be bearish for the Bitcoin price, especially in the short to mid -short term. Now, let's go to two reasons that I think are very possible. So I think those reasons so far are okay possible or okay relevant. Let's say it this way. Binance. Big, big, big topic. Story is that Binance has a BNB liquidation level at $212. I want to be very clear. A lot of this is rumor. There's not much substance to kind of put a lot of evidence there. So people have been sharing all kinds of flaky kind of things. They've been sharing screenshots, transactions. Again, I think it's I would give this like I'm not saying this is not possible, but I would probably give this. Yeah, like if in court this would never hold. Right. So I think this would this is way too much kind of hocus pocus and way too little of substance. But there is a strong possibility that Binance needs to support the BNB price. We that know Binance bought a lot of Bitcoin and a lot of ETH in the first half of the year, especially in the first quarter of the year, actually, in January and in March. And we know this for a fact. We see the transactions. We know that. We know they sold off their BUSD and we know they bought a lot of Bitcoin and ETH. And that is actually the reason why crypto did so well. That's the number one reason. And now we know Binance is sitting on this and they're going to keep sitting on Bitcoin and ETH simply because they don't want to go into anything else. They can be censored or seized and so on. Right. So they need to have this decentralized asset pool. And obviously, they're going to have loans versus BNB because that's going to allow them to get access to other funds without having to sell those BNB. And the BNB are absolutely central to the ecosystem. So there is this strong rumor that Binance sold off Bitcoin super aggressively on Binance and on OKEx. That's at least the kind of the data here. And caused that this price drop massively down. So it could be. Now the question, right. So this is the first actual reason. Obviously, Grayscale is also a reason that's going to continue. But that is a reason why we may see more pain ahead. That's really, really important. The Michael Burry story, sure, but that's a fundamental big thing. The Grayscale stuff, I mean, that's just a question on is this Grayscale stuff going to get approved. Both SpaceX, that to me is more like story and more emotions. Evergrande, sure topic. We're going to keep seeing this. But this Binance stuff is going to be something that's very, very, very dangerous. And I mentioned this a couple of times. Binance is the reason why the price went up. It may be the reason why the price really, really goes down. And we have seen this now. So let's see. And that's going to be a key focus. And the other point that's obviously very important is to know that obviously the US has over a billion US dollars of Bitcoins that they want to sell. And we have seen fund movements in July about this already. And now, I mean, we're talking about 300 million US dollars back then. And so there is a high probability that part of these funds actually got sold now. Now, we don't know that. But I just want to point this out. Now, the interesting thing about this is that if this is a reason that why Bitcoin went down, then this would stop now. Because at some point they sold them and that's it. And so very, very interesting, very kind of questionable to ask for the week. So it really depends on what are we going to find out. Do we find out that it was Binance? Sure. I don't give much to this tinfoil hat theory that this is just like large banks trying to manipulate the price down. I mean, everyone always says this about their investment. This is just the big banks manipulating the Bitcoin price down so that they can get an entry point. I don't know. I mean, sure, maybe. But this to me is like always just the coping mechanisms of people who just don't want to deal with the fact that their price just went down. And they're trying to kind of tell people on what the price is going to go up soon because people just sold to buy. I don't know. So that to me is always a bit of a tricky one, to be honest. I don't give this too much credibility. And so it's going to depend a bit on this. Now, from that, and that's going to be the main focus obviously in crypto. I think that's going to be key. Bitcoin is going to set the direction here. But I have to say, most altcoins actually outperformed over this period. And that's quite crazy, right? Ethereum outperformed, DeFi chain outperformed. Most of the altcoins actually outperformed Bitcoin over the weekend since Thursday, simply because it was really Bitcoin who was pressured with the price. And so that kind of clearly shows it was Bitcoin that sold off. And I mean, yeah, it was also the asset that was mostly bought in the first quarter of the year. And then obviously with the Bitcoin spot ETF hopium in Q2. So kind of makes sense that it's also being sold off right now. Now, we do have two macro things, in my opinion, or two non -crypto things to watch this week. We have Jackson Hole, where the Fed is going to make a few speeches and talks and kind of shares a little bit about their thinking. I think that's happening on Thursday. So that's definitely something to watch that's going to give us a bit of an idea. Are we going to see higher interest rates for longer? Does the Fed think that, you know, we need to actually print money to pay off debt, which then causes obviously potential inflation? That means we need to have high interest for longer. So kind of this cycle of how am I going to repay debt that no one else wants to buy? Well, I just print the money myself. I basically debase my own money. So that's kind of a bit of a, that's going to be a bit of a story. And the other one is going to be Nvidia. Nvidia is the last kind of company to report, very separate from the rest of the group. Why is this relevant? Why? Well, it's going to tell us a little bit about AI. And that's going to be key to understand here. How is AI going to go? And look, AI has been a main detractor away from crypto. A lot of VC funds, a lot of entrepreneurs and so on that normally would go into crypto now going into AI. And so that's going to be a key focus point. It's going to be very interesting to see. And that's definitely something to watch out for. So I think that's crucial. On the big side, on my company side, dollar cost averaging going strong. We're raffling off a lot of beautiful things. So if you're not dollar cost averaging yet, check this out. We're also going to be launching a few cool things this week. So I think that's interesting. A few updates. If you haven't downloaded our app, go to big .io. The DeFi chain improvement proposal just got approved about staking the collateral ETH. So those are going to get staked and those ETH are going to generate cash flow. This ETH is going to be used to buy and burn DFI. So that's going to be an interesting one. So yeah, very, very smart move, in my opinion, from the community to go this direction. So that should be very strong for the DFI price. Obviously, Testnet. I think the final version of the Testnet just got uploaded to GitHub. So if there's no further bugs found or no further things found, that's going to be the version that's going to go into mainnet, fingers crossed. So we are on a good track here. Yeah, mainnet isn't too far away now. That's quite exciting. So a lot of very constructive, supportive things in all this. But let's see. I mean, at the end, it's really going to depend a bit on what's the dollar price of all these things doing. My tip for you, focus on things that you can control. Don't trade dollar -cost average. Focus on your business, on your work. Focus on yourself. I don't know. Go to the gym. Go running. Focus on your family. Focus with friends. I just had a beautiful barbecue yesterday, Sunday, with friends. So look, that's the key thing. And so, yeah, with that, I wish you a beautiful week. All the best. It's a rainy morning here in Singapore. Stay safe. See you next time. Yours truly, Julian. Bye -bye. Unfortunately, we are already at the end of today's episode. If you find the crypto show helpful and would like to continue being a part of it, don't forget to subscribe so you are notified when we have the next episode out. If you want to do me a huge favor, please leave a review. 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The Podcast On Podcasting
"one reasons" Discussed on The Podcast On Podcasting
"Be that proactive influencer, be that proactive business owner, be the proactive podcaster, where you can set the energy, the level, the heat, the temperature that you want this to be, and those around you will fall into place. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey podcaster, it's your host, Adam A. Adams and AAA. And I'm joining you today on this episode, just with an idea thought where actually I stole the idea. I robbed the idea. No, don't remember where I saw it, but it was on some social, either maybe IG or possibly TikTok or Facebook. Those are the three. IG and Facebook are the ones that I use the most. So it's probably in one of those places. But it came across this quote. It basically just said, be the thermostat, not the thermometer. I thought it was an interesting idea and I wanted to process it with you. I wanted to think through it with you and consider if this can benefit you in your podcasting journey or benefit you for your business, for your company. And hopefully both of them, your podcast and your company, hopefully those go hand in hand. So one is more like the funnel, the top of the funnel that's going to get people to check you out. So first, I guess we've got to at least define a thermometer and a thermostat because a lot of people think that they're the same thing. I would say there are a good handful of people that I've met that don't know the difference between a thermometer and a thermostat. So since that's the case, I'm going to assume you don't. And you might be like, oh, obviously I know this. That's okay. I'm going to assume for a second that you don't because a different listener might not know. And so I'm going to explain it a little bit. A thermometer, a thermo meter, it meters it. It basically takes a snapshot of where are we. It doesn't affect the actual temperature gauge. It doesn't do anything but tell you what is the temperature. So when you were young and sick, your parent or guardian may have put a thermometer, a thermo meter under your tongue. And it metered, basically said, what is your temperature? If you're in the US, that might've been 98.6 degrees, 99, 100, 101, 2, 3, 4, or 5. And we know that it's a real fever when it's above, I think it's 101.8 or something. Now that's a real fever. And the thermometer, the thermo meter literally only tells you what is the temperature. It reads the temperature. It doesn't affect the temperature at all. A thermostat is a little bit different. A thermostat are generally the things that we put on our walls. And we say, I want my house to be 69 degrees Fahrenheit, or I want my house to be 18 degrees Celsius. And you set the thermostat. And in many cases, if it gets too hot, the air conditioning or the swamp cooler will kick on and it will cool the place. And in some cases, if it gets below the temperature, if you wanted it at 69 or 70 degrees and it's getting below that, maybe the heat's going to kick on. So the difference is when you're the thermostat, you're dictating what is the temperature going to be. When you're the thermometer, you're just telling what it is. One is more proactive. And so be that proactive influencer, be that proactive business owner, be the proactive podcaster, where you can set the energy, the level, the heat, the temperature that you want this to be. And those around you will fall into place versus you just pointing out, oh, it's hot. Oh, it's too cold. It's making me think of Goldilocks. And this one is just right. It'll be just right if you are the thermostat and you're affecting the change. If you're just reading the change, then you're going to sound more like a complainer. You're going to sound more like somebody who is helpless to make anything happen. And you're not helpless. So be the thermostat, not the thermometer. And I'll see you on the next episode. You're not alone. If you're ready to either get your very first affordable microphone, or if you're ready to upgrade your equipment to some legit podcasting studio equipment, because on all of the forums over the last few months, I'm seeing this all the time. Even my own personal clients that work with my team, they're ready to get that next microphone. They're asking us for it. Additionally, when I'm on discovery calls with potential clients, they're always asking for this stuff. Hey, what mic do you recommend? Hey, what lighting do you recommend? What we did? 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Bloomberg Radio New York
"one reasons" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"So in that sense, our plan would be much better than the current Medicare plan. There'd be no risk of having to pay anything out of pocket. On the other hand, because we are realists, at least in terms of the economics, we'd have that coverage be much more basic than the current Medicare coverage. People are so concerned about Medicare costs growing so fast and going through the roof. One reason they do is that because there's no budget constraint on the system. Patients want care. Physicians are willing to provide it. There's no gatekeeper on the back end saying, no, maybe we need to check to make sure you really need that CT scan because you came in with a headache. So we would have much more constraints on the nature the of care that's provided, but anything that was provided would be completely free. So how do we help? You know, you know where that gets to, like people making decisions about who gets what. Like how do we make sure that is done in a pure way? That's a good question. So the first thing I want to emphasize is that the whole point of a universal basic health insurance system is to fulfill the social commitment we that clearly have and it's revealed by all our patchwork policies to provide essential medical care when people are ill regardless of their ability to pay for it. And so the basic coverage has to cover what's medically essential, but it doesn't have to cover things that we all might like, but that aren't actually essential medical care. So you can have longer wait times for non -urgent care. You can have fewer amenities, the non -medical part, like more people to a hospital room. And this is what other countries do, countries like Singapore or Australia. They provide universal basic coverage, but if you want a private hospital room or good hospital food, that's what you pay extra for. I will say, there was one point my husband got ill over in the UK, and we were initially in, I guess, their and public system it was a ton of people in a room and you had to own food. It wasn't great, I'm going to be quite honest, and he was with an employer who pulled him out and put him over to a hospital that was like a nice hotel. and got ill got a bunch of tests that they could do as soon as he walked in, although had we to see the finance person. That was the first person we saw to make sure that it was going to be paid for. It was just such a contrast. I'm trying to understand how we forward move and get to something where more people are getting better care and I'm wondering how do we pay for all of this? I think those are related questions. The example we give in the book is how do we fulfill our obligations but without all the extra stuff? Your husband's example is a perfect one. I can totally understand why you liked going outside of the system. more The you had a private room, more convenience, etc. But I think our commitment as a society is not to provide everyone with luxury high -end medical care such as your husband was fortunate to receive but to provide essential medical care and that's also how we keep the price down. So if you are fortunate enough to be able to afford it and you want to buy those extra amenities, that's great but that's not what we're committed to as a society. We're not committed to providing a luxury experience. We're committed to providing essential medical care and as we discuss in the book, that's also how we keep the price tag down. That was MIT economics professor Amy Finkelstein. She co -authored the just released book We've Got You Covered, Rebooting American Healthcare. Our full interview with Amy is also available on the Business Week podcast feed. You are listening to Business Bloomberg Week. Up next, we put the spotlight on Amazon and what regulators discovered when they took perhaps their most intrusive look yet inside the e -commerce giant's warehouses.
AP News
"one reasons" Discussed on AP News
" Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregnancy or delivery than any other race, and sometimes it's because of racial bias. Angelica and Anthony alliance are sisters from Birmingham, Alabama, and they both had traumatic pregnancies, Angelica became pregnant in 2019 at her son was due the following January, Angelica, who worked at the university of Alabama at Birmingham, says she experienced severe pain during her pregnancy and in October checked into the hospital affiliated with the university. She says she was treated for constipation but her pain persisted. I got in the bed, I felt this strong pain from vaginal area all the way up to my chest. I screamed. That was literally the beginning of literally them constantly leaving me in pain. Angelica says her pleas for help were shrugged off even after vomiting bile, and she was repeatedly sent home from the hospital because doctors and nurses claimed she was experiencing normal contractions. She says she wasn't taken seriously until a searing pain shot through her body and her baby's heart rate plummeted she was rushed into delivery two months before her due date, Angelica says she was on life support for three days and almost didn't make it. It's scary knowing that I could have died, you know? My mom, my sister, my ex-husband, would have to be, you know, taking care of my son and I wouldn't be. And even in my records, I think they have it down that I have PTSD with that hospital. Angelica lions experience is a reflection of the medical racism bias and inattentive care that many black Americans endure. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the U.S. 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021. That's almost three times the rate for white women and black babies are more likely to die and be born prematurely, setting the stage for health issues that could follow them through their lives, black Americans health issues have long been ascribed to genetics or behavior when actuality and array of circumstances were linked to racism, restrictions on where people could live and a historical lack of access to care, Angelica's sister and Sonia says when it came time for her to have her baby where she developed complications after two previous miscarriages, her doctor referred her to the same hospital where Angelica almost died. My heart kind of dropped when you said because I didn't want to go to that hospital. From which she had already gone through, I was traumatized. Alabama has a dark history of medical racism, in the 1800s, J Marion Sims, known as the father of gynecology, performed surgical experiments on enslaved black women. He did not use anesthesia. There's a statue of Sims outside the Alabama state capitol. I'm Donna water
Northwest Newsradio
"one reasons" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Editor's desk, I'm Taylor van seif, now some of our headlines that were falling following from our 24/7 news center, an expert on the stand says that the alleged Gwyneth Paltrow ski crash victim can't enjoy wine tastings because of injuries, Paltrow accused of running into and badly injuring a man and then skiing away with friends as he remained unconscious she's been sued. And broadcasts of Major League Baseball games on Apple TV plus this season will require a subscription after all. Last year, Apple started broadcasting Major League Baseball games every Friday night free of charge, viewers now have to pony up for the viewing pleasure. A hospital in northern Idaho, a small town in northern Idaho idea has closed its obstetrics unit in part because of the state's ban on abortion and that means that the hospital in sandpoint can't deliver babies or at least won't plan to. Northwest is radio's Jeff Pogba got the details from Marissa yachty at The Washington Post. So bonner cited a couple of reasons for closing their department, not only the legal and political climate, others were a declining number of births and also a shortage of doctors, but they did say that the legal and political climate has exacerbated the problem. And what they mean by that is the state's abortion ban, which is one of the strictest in the country. There are exceptions for rape or incest only if the pregnant patient has reported it to law enforcement. For example, and so some of the experts that we talked to said that this law makes some obstetrics practitioners nervous about working in Idaho that it makes it harder for hospitals like bond or to recruit and keep good doctors. To kind of play devil's advocate, why would a doctor be worried about this if they just don't perform the band procedures? They would say that there are medical reasons where they might have to perform the procedure or something that a court of law might consider to be an abortion. Really what they're trying to navigate is legalese and they're not lawyers, their doctors. So they don't know how what they do or why they do it will be interpreted in a court of law, but if they are found to have broken the law, it could be punishable by two to 5 years in prison. And so it is a pretty serious, pretty serious consequence if they perform an abortion for what they think is a reason allowed in law and then it turns out that a court disagrees with them. Does Idaho law give an exception for the health or life of the mother? There are possible defenses if the doctor says it's necessary to save the life of the pregnant patient, there are also exceptions if the pregnant patient has reported rape or incest to law enforcement, the medical providers have to prove that in court if they are questioned on it. So the medical providers would have to prove that they were innocent of a crime. That kind of goes against the idea of innocent until proven guilty. This is a law that you would expect to be litigated quite a bit. It's definitely an unusual law. They have to make what can be a hard case. For example, having to prove that the patient might have died without the intervention is a tough thing to show and to get a judge or a jury to understand. But this is certainly the only case in the United States, obviously north China Ho very conservative, but there are plenty of other places around the country that are just as conservative and are hospitals closing their obstetrics departments there as well. We haven't seen a huge wave in response to abortion ban specifically, but I can tell you that there is a broader issue in rural areas with labor and delivery units closing for reasons that already existed pre row, the doctor shortage is a broad problem in rural hospitals. You have a lot of rural counties that are what's called maternity care deserts now and the reproductive rights advocates that we talk to said their prediction is that abortion bans in various states are going to make it harder even harder for these hospitals to keep doctors. That's Marissa yachty with The Washington Post speaking with Jeff podge line for more on that interview. You can subscribe to the northwest politics available wherever you get your podcasts. Time for our stock charts dot com money update markets closed lower today with a sudden sell off at the closing bell after the Federal Reserve announced another rate hike, the Dow down 530 points, the S&P 500 down 66 in the NASDAQ down a 190 points. That's a loss across the board of 1.6%. Your next money update at three 20. Our northwest reigns can wreak havoc on your home's plumbing system. So if you're seeing water backups and suspect a main line or sewer blockage, I got to tell you about one of the most comprehensive plumbing outfits in the P and W best plumbing with state of the art camera technology, best plumbing can diagnose and clear your claw quickly, and they do it all as
77WABC Radio
"one reasons" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
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Bloomberg Radio New York
"one reasons" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
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KOMO
"one reasons" Discussed on KOMO
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ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"one reasons" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Talking Super Bowl 55. I'll tell you the one reason Patrica homes in the Chiefs are going to be repeat. Champions has everything to do with the guys. He throws to Keyshawn Jay Williams. You've been six eastern on ESPN radio. There's a fight in that group of the unknown is Freddie Hampton, Simmons on Freddie Coleman on ESPN Radio. The ESPN happened Sirius XM Channel 80. Presented by progressive insurance earlier this we had a chance to be on this young man show. Does a great job part of W. D A in Tampa, my friend Pat down and hit him on Twitter that Pat Donovan radio here to talk about Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers in the Super Bowl in that city, hosting a suitable doing a pandemic. He said, Thanks to the Goodyear Hotline number one path. Appreciate your brother number one number two. What has it been like? This week? Super Bowl week where it has been a lot of media, of course, because of the pandemic, and this city find gets a chance to see their team playing a Super Bowl as the first home team, the host one in the NFL history. Assume weird been very different. Rightly last year was our first radio road, So it's not like we've been to 100 of these things, but just, you know, Every time we turned around last year in Miami, there was a hall of Fame running back or, you know some celebrity walking by or coming by the sit down and join the show and This year. You know, as you did. Everybody joined us on the phone except for a handful of people we did. You know, I think Tuesday we had the mayor of Tampa. She had to be there and then you know, other than that we had a handicapper who came by and I think he just wanted lunch. And he was pretty bummed out that we only have Caesar salad. Yeah, well, ABC got fed number one, so it could have been nothing there for him from that standpoint, But how cool hasn't been Tom Brady Come to your city his first year there, and he puts you back into the Super Bowl for the first time since 2000 and two Has crazy and you know, I'll raise my hand. I was one of those guys when the rumors started. I was like, Let's not be Philly. There's no way Tom Brady's leaving New England Jamis Winston will be back here next year. And he's gonna have a really good year in year two under Bruce Arians, and I still think Jamie's might have but is there's just no denying how different things are. When Tom Brady is your quarterback, and I knew there being a an impact. I knew there would You know, the Tom Brady effect was real. But I didn't know how real it Woz, and it's been just remarkable to see despite the fact that you know there was no rookie cancer, O p A's or mini camps and even Training camp was short and weird, so then to be where they are, If it truly is remarkable, and it's Stipe the fact that the defense kind of had a bail about you know, two weeks ago, it really is because of Tom Brady. He's been the pattern. Arizona 95.3 w. D, a in the great city of Tampa, pad down from my friend joining us here on Freddie Fitzsimmons on ESPN Radio on Sirius XM Channel 80. I'm glad you mentioned Bruce Arians. There's a great article on him earlier this week about the diversity and his staff. Including when it times comes to people of color having positions. You could both coordinators African American but also having a woman on his staff, and he's always said we were the best person is I want to be the one that hires them. No that has not been talked about. But what has been the reaction to seeing what kind of staff he's been able to put together with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers? You know, the cool thing about it is you kind of reference is a little bit is Bruce Arians isn't just about Hey, I want to make a point. You know the guys want and he'll tell you And if Bruce Arians is hiring you It's not just because of your skin color, your gender any agenda that he has. It's because you are the best person for that job and he's disease of the best coaches. I know and You know, he really has made it a point to seek out the best coaches. But also inclusion is something that's very important to have and you know, it's something that the league is obviously trying to take a look at and It's funny because you don't you would imagine as a head coach. Want to lose your coordinators? Because then you have to refill those positions. But in a Bruce Arians is like I'm pissed off. Byron Leftwich didn't get an interview. You know, guys? Inoffensive guy. He works with quarterbacks. He was an NFL quarterback. Isn't that what we're looking for in this league? You know, we want to see that because I mean times. The NFL has said that everybody has a fair and equal shot. But we all live on planet Earth. We know that's not the case, but I'm not saying it's surprising the Glazer family Side off on Bruce areas. Well, what has it been like having a glaze of family taking a back seat because we know that they like to be in the middle of things. They let Bruce Arians be in charge of things, and they pretty much stayed out of it when it comes to Tampa Bay, getting to the Super Bowl. Yeah, And I think for the most part, you know, they've done a good job that over the years, I don't know that they've always hired the right football. People's matter of fact, I'm sure in time that they haven't but certainly, since Jason Light has been here, you know he's really given him The opportunity to build his staff and build his roster and really in. They afforded him a little bit of patience because things didn't work out with lovey Smith there, Dirk Cutter and you know for a time being, There's people going way through this. Guys that drafted a speaker in the second round right on. Not all the draft picks really worked out. But then all the sudden you look up over the last couple of years, and you've got a guy like Vita Fay and Devon White in the middle and all the sudden this roster is good enough that when the best quarterback in the history of Earth became a free agent, he looked at the roster and said Hey, there's one I could win with And what do you know? He did get him into the pack. Donovan radio, part of the Pat and Aaron. So mid days Monday through Friday noon to 3 P.m. Eastern Time on 95.3, W D. A Pat Donovan joining me here on Friday, and Fitz Simmons on ESPN Radio and X in town, 80..
KTLK 1130 AM
"one reasons" Discussed on KTLK 1130 AM
"On the phone yesterday, President Biden and Russia's president Putin, Russia's deputy foreign minister now says they agreed to extend the last remaining nuclear weapons treaty on Moscow's terms. Administration setting the terms for returning to the Iran nuclear deal. American allies are trying to shape how this administration is going to deal with Iran. That efforts intensifying now, especially as the Senate has confirmed Antony Blinken, the incoming secretary of state, He says Iran's nuclear program is back at a crisis point and that the U. S will return to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement and lift sanctions on Lee. If Iran stops violating the terms of the deal first, Blanken says, the U. S and Iran are a long way. In that point, And here's one reason why Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif, tweeted quote. Why on Earth should Iran a country that stood firm and defeated four years of a brutal US economic terrorism show? Goodwill gesture. First, it was the U. S. That broke the deal for no reason it must remedy. It's wrong, Then Iran will respond. Fox is rich Edson at the State Department, a teenager accused of murdering his family in Indianapolis over the weekend will be charged as an adult. Police say the 17 year old suspect shot and killed his mother, father and three siblings. Investigators say he opened fire after his father scolded him for leaving the home without permission. AUSTIN, Texas A gunman took hostages inside a Children's medical center yesterday afternoon. Hours later, police found two people dead inside baseball writers snubbing several big name baseball players voting not to induct anyone into the baseball Hall of Fame this summer. Cy Young Award winner Curt Schilling came in the closest receiving 71% of the vote, needing 16 more votes to reach the mandatory 75% to be inducted. Schilling has since released a statement asking to be removed from next year's ballot boxes. My guns, woman reports Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds were also passed over my Jack. Hello, this'd Fox tears. From.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"one reasons" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"It's official donald. Trump is no longer the president of the united states. As i speak. Joe biden and kamala harris are being inaugurated are being sworn in to their positions and we are about to enter a very new era of national politics of federal politics. I don't expect that it will be easy. In any way we have over-simplified our problems in the sense that we have blamed many of our deep systemic problems that predated trump. We have blamed many of those things on him including police. Brutality mass incarceration when those things were fully entrenched before he ever took office. But i want to say. And i want to talk about this this one thing today. I wanna say the one reason why. I'm going to have a serious degree of grace and patients with both joe biden and kamala harris. That i think a year ago. I probably would not have offered. Had the two of them been sworn in but a lot has happened over the past year. Let me tell you why. I'm going to have grace as they began this extremely difficult journey. Let me unpack and explain it. This is shaun king. You're listening to the breakdown. The breakdown the breakdown. If you've ever listened to this podcast or if you follow me on social media you've ever seen or heard me on the campaign trail for bernie sanders you know that. I've been a huge huge critic of joe biden and in particular. I've been a huge critic of his is policies and history and and kind of problematic past on issues of mass incarceration the war on drugs and policing and win this presidential campaign particularly we go all the way back almost two years now on the democratic primaries i started <hes> there was no coronavirus pandemic. There had been no attack on the american capital and the four hundred thousand plus people who've now died over the past nine months they were they were all alive and what has happened to our nation over the past year truly makes it arguably one of the most difficult years in modern american history of certainly over the past few generations at the very least. It's just been an unspeakably difficult year. And the truth. Is that all of the things that made twenty twenty so hard as we saw just continued into twenty twenty one now with trump out of office and with him off of twitter and i. That's no small thing. I i wasn't. I was on break from the podcast when he was booted from twitter and didn't get really didn't get a chance to really unpack it but having him off of twitter is damn near as big as having him out of the white house. Twitter was his superpower and with him no longer their misinformation and hate and so much other things so many other things just plummeted all over social media particularly on twitter. He he we now. Fully understand was the epicenter of hate and misinformation on that platform. And when you remove him all of a sudden so many other negative metrics plummeted as well now hate and racism and bigotry. Don't disappear when you remove him from twitter. But having trump out of office without the power of that position about the power to appoint judges and supreme court justices and cabinet members and white house staffers in without the power of executive actions without him and his incompetent team overseeing the a horrible response to the coronavirus pandemic a competent team can now be put in place and so a lot of the things that made twenty twenty difficult. Some of those things continue into twenty twenty one though with trump out of office his administration out of office and with him off of twitter. I think there are some things that will get better with that sale. Joe biden comma. Harris are literally about to begin. What i think will be the most difficult presidency in our lifetime
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"one reasons" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
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KQED Radio
"one reasons" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Speaking of coded language. Well, it's hard for a number of reasons. One reason is that we are very far from consensus among the American public about what speech platforms should be taking down, But then beyond that is the point that you raising your question about what once they do set a policy. How can they tell when a new Name or euphemism is in circulation. And part of the answer is that they employ people who are experts and following the research on this, and so hopefully the big platforms who can afford to employ those people are relatively up to date. What about the concern? Some people have that Alcide an old example that someone like Lenny Bruce wouldn't be able to be On the social media platforms. Now, that is absolutely a concern. There's also a risk of the harm from taking down the wrong things falling disproportionately on certain groups, in particular people of color people who are not native English speakers. There are studies showing that when platforms rely on automation to figure out whose speeches hateful They falsely penalize speakers of African American English more than everyone else. So it's not just a speech issue. There's inequality issue. There's also an economic issue with proposing rules that the giant platforms can afford to comply with, But they're smaller competitors cannot let me cash back one last time to what? Jack Dorsey of Twitter Suggested this week and to paraphrase him, he said, We took the step on Lee reluctantly because we really do seek to be a worldwide platform for a free exchange of ideas. All over the world, even ones that some people consider to be offensive. We have to be careful about this because this is the way that some national liberation groups the only way that they can communicate with each other against the dictatorship. I think it's something we all should pay attention to, as we press for more takedowns of bad content, the risk that that will become a mechanism for silencing important public discourse. But also I think they don't want to have to make decisions that will make half of the country very angry with, um any shift that would let them outsource that decision and point the finger at somebody else as Facebook is doing with the Facebook oversight board, I think they would be very happy to find that. Are there some dangers as we become increasingly reliant for these platforms to carry national dialogue? Is that instead of people talking to each other and exchanging different ideas, we're going to have everybody crawl under their favorite platform and exchange only ideas there. Well, that is a risk in particular as we drive hateful speakers off of mainstream platforms where other people can respond to them and disagree with them. Into smaller and more marginalized echo chambers where they're going to hear only views that agree with there's our views that are more radicalizing. That is one of the costs. Definitely. Killer platform regulation director at the Stanford.
KQED Radio
"one reasons" Discussed on KQED Radio
"But there's a risk that they become importers of Chinese speech rolls or Turkish speech rules. How can social media companies and we're posting services moderate. Regulate racist and violent messages when A lot of the people who post them. Speaking a coded language. Well, it's hard for a number of reasons. One reason is that we are very far from consensus among the American public about what speech platforms should be taking down, But then beyond that is the point that you raising your question about what once they do set a policy. How can they tell when a new Name or euphemism is in circulation. And part of the answer is that they employ people who are experts and following the research on this, and so hopefully the big platforms who can afford to employ those people are relatively up to date. About the concern. Some people have that outside an old example that someone like Lenny Bruce wouldn't be able to be On the social media platforms. Now, that is absolutely a concern. There's also a risk of the harm from taking down the wrong things falling disproportionately on certain groups, in particular people of color people who are not native English speakers. There are studies showing that when platforms rely on automation to figure out whose speeches hateful They falsely penalize speakers of African American English more than everyone else. So it's not just a speech issue. There's inequality issue. There's also an economic issue with proposing rules that the giant platforms can afford to comply with, But they're smaller competitors cannot let me cash back one last time to what? Jack Dorsey of Twitter Suggested this week and to paraphrase him, he said, We took the step on Lee reluctantly because we really do seek to be a worldwide platform for a free exchange of ideas. All over the world, even ones that some people consider to be offensive. We have to be careful about this because this is the way that some national liberation groups the only way that they can communicate with each other against the dictatorship. I think it's something we all should pay attention to, as we press for more takedowns of bad content, the risk that that will become a mechanism for silencing important public discourse. But also I think they don't want to have to make decisions that will make half of the country very angry with, um any shift that would let them outsource that decision and point the finger at somebody else as Facebook is doing with the Facebook oversight board, I think they would be very happy to find that are there some dangerous as we become increasingly reliant for these platforms to carry national dialogue? Is that instead of people talking to each other and exchanging different ideas, we're going to have everybody crawl under their favorite platform and exchange only ideas there. Well, that is a risk in particular as we drive hateful speakers off of mainstream platforms where other people can respond to them and disagree with them. Into smaller and more marginalized echo chambers, where they're going to hear only views that agree with there's our views that are more radicalizing. That is one of the costs. Daphne Keller, platform Regulation director at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. Thanks so much for being with us, thank.
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